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...menace that Quayle lacks. Quayle smacks more of Midwestern Americana, of The Music Man's Professor Harold Hill, and Quayle's lines about unmarried mothers sounded like an echo: "We got trouble, right here in River City!" -- brazen hussies strutting around town in a family way: Make your blood boil? Well, I should...
Once it became clear that all names would be divulged, the hallways of Congress were jammed with lawmakers reciting fervent mea culpas to TV crews in hopes of lancing the boil before they were officially exposed. Charles Hatcher, a Georgia Democrat, apologized for writing 780 bad checks. California Republican Duncan Hunter confessed to constituents that he had overdrawn his account at least 160 times. By week's end, more than 75 members of Congress had fessed up to using the privilege, but some of the most chronic abusers remained silent. Even the leadership has not been spared embarrassment: Speaker...
...even if Muhammad's association with Farrakhan were not reason enough to refuse funding the minister's lecture, Muhammad's past statements should have been enough to hint that he wasn't stopping by for the weekend to talk music but to bring anger and prejudice to a boil and preach the passionate polemics of hate...
Hasbro is offering Monster Face, a life-size plastic skull that comes complete with "blistering boil," "nose slime drip" and "quivering bugs and worms." Kids can style it to be as repugnant as possible. Kenner is betting that kids will want to gross out Mom and Dad with Savage Mondo Blitzer characters that come in four-packs with names like Puke Shooters and Chunk Blowers. While ERTL, a respectable die-cast model-car company, is offering ; Blurp Balls -- hideous softball-size spheres, with names like Retch-A-Rat Tomcat, that shoot out revolting objects from their mouths when squeezed...
When the Supreme Court decided last week to review a Pennsylvania law that restricts abortion, it all but guaranteed that the long-simmering issue would come to a boil again just before the Republican Convention gets under way in Houston in August. The day after the court took the case, the streets of Washington offered a symbolic preview of the fight to come. To mark the 19th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision that made abortion a federally protected right, pro-choice and pro-life demonstrators squared off in photo-op warfare...