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Politeness makes sense to the politicos. Neither this city nor its suburbs have any native industry--you won't find many meat-packing plants in Georgetown or in posh Falls Church, Va., Potomac, Md.--and the bird-to-victim ration is high...
...Despite their three rows of teeth and their tendency to use condoms as chewing gum, Beldar and Prymaat and their earthborn daughter Connie (Michelle Burke) adapt splendidly to New Jersey suburban life. For this is the Conehead version of that familiar Hollywood fable, the grelbon out of pluvarb (bird out of water -- there are no fish on Remulak...
...fragment, for example, she creates the voice of a socialite getting back to her roots through gourmet cuisine: "Did I tell you I've been cooking again? I'm really turning my house into a home...When the heat pours out of the oven and I baste the browning bird with all those good juices, it makes me never want to read another issue of Vanity Fair." Bernhard sounds both snotty and heartfelt; her pen drips in a sarcasm so intense it redeems these cliches, rendering them oddly evocative and always hilarious...
Somehow Pat Nixon never quite captured the fancy of the American public. The cameras that caught the angular planes of her face missed the soft contours of her heart. Her Republican, cloth-coat persona was no match for the glamour of her predecessors: Jacqueline Kennedy, international trendsetter, and Lady Bird Johnson, poetic beautifier of highways. But most likely it was because Pat Nixon stood by her man in the best Tammy Wynette fashion. And from his ambitious first days in politics to the catastrophic final days, her man could not shake the visceral distrust of the public and the media...
Three years ago, the number one use for the Harvard Law Record was "lining bird cages," says Elizabeth A. Moreno, who graduated this month from Harvard Law School...