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...protect themselves, some lawmakers have tried to blur their incumbent status. In Illinois, for instance, Democratic Senator Paul Simon is airing a TV commercial that shows his opponent, Congresswoman Lynn Martin, next to a copy of the Congressional Record while an announcer reels off her votes. Simon is described as "fighting" for this or that cause, rather than "voting" on anything. The spot leaves doubt as to just who has been in the Senate for the past six years. The motif of fighting for the home folks against Washington shows up in many ads in other states...
...line, drugs became a convenient escape route. She took the prescription drug Percodan for the ongoing heartbreak and pain, and she dropped LSD ritually for transcendent illumination. "Drugs became a way of blunting the sharpness of the juts. Juts-tapositioning oneself," she says. "I always wanted to blunt and blur what was painful. My idea was pain reduction and mind expansion, but I ended up with mind reduction and pain expansion." Her excesses eventually landed her in a hospital emergency ward, having her stomach pumped...
...hour of good painting done, you need four hours of uninterrupted time." He describes a recent favorite, Oww, God, Mom, the Dog He Bited Me: "There's a clump of Band-Aids in the bottom corner. A dark background. A stick figure whose head is a blur of blood. Then a very small dog, made out of glue. There is a house, a little black bump. It is pretty crude, pretty primitive and minimal. I like...
...years in between have been a blur of names and journeymen. The Yankees became a shuttle between Columbus, the home of the triple-A minor league squad, and the Big Apple. They were years of mediocre records, middling talent, and half-empty stadiums...
...Freshman this is a doubled-edged sword. No one who has seen The Godfather will, without great difficulty, be able to successfully separate Brando's characterization of Don Corleone from his characterization of Carmine Sabatini. In the viewer's mind Brando's various incarnations of the mob boss blur, and along with the confusion goes The Freshman's hopes for a separate successful identity...