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Characters like Ivy are the salvation of many authors. Ivy epitomizes the calculating bitch without becoming a caricature. None of her actions strain credibility, and this is an asset for a plot that gets as cluttered as this one does. Ivy realizes her thwarted spinster dreams through Elesina. Anticipating or rather shaping the impact Elesina has on the Stein men, Ivy patiently builds the foundation for the power she knows Elesina eventually will wield. Disregarding the sacrifices the Steins and eventually she herself make for Elesina. Ivy engineers a divorce, schedules rendezvous for adulterers, sheds the appropriate number of tears...
Democratic leaders were loyally closing behind the President, even though they believe, as one phrased it, that passing the package will be "a bitch." Said Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd: "The solution requires the best that is in us. This is a supreme test and it requires a supreme effort. Yet I think there's a reservoir of courage and strength and patriotism here that will respond." House Democratic Leader Tip O'Neill readily concurred, declaring that passage of the President's package will involve "the toughest fight this Congress has ever...
...party had just gone down to a disastrous defeat with Candidate George McGovern, who carried only one state (Massachusetts) and the District of Columbia. Through a combination of shrewd politicking and good-humored bullying-"He is the only person I know who can call you a son of a bitch and leave you laughing!" says an admirer-Strauss succeeded brilliantly in reconciling the party's warring wings into a reasonably coherent organization...
...grind. Motorcycle gangs, too, have often embraced Hitlerian helmets and swastikas. All such artifacts are readily available through mail-order import houses, as well as some gun and specialty shops, and the catalogues are advertised in various gun and hunting magazines. Porn paperbacks like Gestapo Prison Brothel and Bitch of Buchenwald have their avid readers...
...contest for the Spiro Agnew Memorial Ethnic Slur Award, which last year went to Earl Butz, is already under way. A strong early bid has been made by Federal Trade Commissioner Paul Rand Dixon, who called Consumer Watchdog Ralph Nader a "son of a bitch" and a "dirty Arab" in a Jan. 17 speech before the Grocery Manufacturers of America. Nader's offense was charging that the commission coddled industry at the expense of the public. Dixon's semiapologetic remarks to a reporter did not help matters much. Conceding that his slur on Nader, who is of Lebanese...