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...Northwest (Simon & Schuster; $45) is also organized by AVAS. Its military-precise maps are much better than those in Halliday's atlas, which are mostly in murky shades of camouflage green. But author Bob Thompson's prose is pedestrian, and his assessments of wineries have as much tang as blush...
...first blush, incentives look like a reasonably good idea. Government does its part to create an environment conducive to economic growth. Jobs are created, and in theory, both corporate profits and tax rolls grow. Unfortunately, bidding wars have escalated to the degree that government often must beggar itself to get or keep business. Now, for a conservative, this too might not seem like such a undesirable consequence: business succeeds at shrinking government and thus strikes a blow for economic liberty...
...alt.sex.masturbation, alt.sex.bondage and alt.sex.fetish.feet. On Internet Relay Chat, a global 24-hour-a-day message board, one can stumble upon imaginary orgies played out with one-line typed commands ("Now I'm taking off your shirt . . ."). In alt.binaries.pictures.erotica, a user can peek at snapshots that would make a sailor blush...
...friend in her employee's hearing, "Well, I see the little Irish girl has set out the wrong dinner plates again." Mahoney's reaction was classic. "The remark -- which amounted to an epithet -- conjured images of a feckless, carrot-topped rustic with a camel's long lashes and a blush that traveled from throat to freckled hairline, awash in a sea of plates the likes of which she had never had the privilege to be confused by before...
...fact left on the fact of the earth," Sandra Bernhard declares near the beginning of her second book, Love, Love, and Love. Bernhard seems just the woman to prove it: she's flirted with Madonna on national TV, performed strip teases with the American flag and made David Letterman blush. Surely few other American entertainers know as much about the shock value of unusual pleasures. Unfortunately, her new book, composed largely of unrelated vignettes, suggests that she is an entertainer who works better on the screen than the page...