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...built Grave Digger in 1981 and still drives it whenever his shoulder is attached to his body. He told me he had started out "mudboggin' and tug-o-warrin'" four-wheel drives. I didn't understand most of what Dennis said. After sitting down for a brief conversation, he told me my monster-truck name should be Powder Puff Boy. Then he punched me in the knee...
...dope adapted to the arena of scandal, a way of elegantly dancing off from the punch, while at the same time seeming to absorb the punch, to defy the punch. If we paid your exorbitant price for this memoir, you would just do the rope-a-dope again - the brief illusion of candor, the dignified drawing of the curtain, the ambient vapor of self-pity, the appeal to higher, more important issues at play, then long expanses of intricate policy wonkery punctuated by outbursts of humanitarian rhetoric....If we allowed you to flim-flam us into this contract...
...attention. Riding last week's streak of legislative victories, Bush riveted the nation (or at least the media) with his announcement Thursday morning that he would make a decision on the controversial issue of federal funding for stem-cell research. Thursday night, President Bush told the nation in a brief televised address that he would support very limited research on embryonic stem cells. Scientists may use an estimated $250 million of federal funds to continue their research, but only using the existing lines of stem cells (the precise quantity of which seems to be a matter of confusion; some...
Being Coppola--sire of the Godfather films, mogul of his own Zoetrope studio, vintner and publisher, capo di tutti capi of the Movie Brat generation--he would not come up with any old director's cut. Apocalypse Now Redux is more than a tinkering, with a brief scene added here, some computer effects daubed in there. It is a complete recutting of the original 5-hr. assemblage; the 2 1/2-hr. running time of the 1979 version has been expanded to include 53 minutes of previously unshown footage. If any recut can be a "new" movie, this one is--vivid, harrowing...
...Minuto’s] position is legally and factually without merit, [and] his conduct has been dishonest,” Harvard’s brief concluded...