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...Schell himself notes advances in the realm of the political and in the realm of the theoretical are mutually beneficial. Each new foray into an imagined world where we do not live our lives knowing we could extinguished like a cigarette butt makes real change more acceptable and more possible. And even Schell, with his inconsistent rhetoric, is bringing the discussion of a non-nuclear world from the political fringes to the forefront of political dialogue...
...pigeons released by ...) or majestic (jetpack flown by . ..) the chore, the 9,000 performers who fashioned the splendor seen on television last Saturday saw themselves as putting together something of first importance-sappy as that may sound. But when was the last time you saw a casually tossed cigarette butt snared by a youthful groundsman before it hit the sod? "My job is to keep this area clean," he said, walking away with the dirty object in the empty yogurt cup he had used as catcher's mitt...
Karnow probably realizes that the increased awareness about Vietnam--which he obviously finds beneficial for the country--could be channeled into a more explicitly isolationist foreign policy and a butt-headed unwillingness among youth to involve itself in any military enterprise to defend the national interest...
...questions at a press conference dealt with the money flowing from political-action committees (PACs) to his 127 delegate committees. Retreating to his suite at the Nashville Hyatt Regency Hotel with Senior Adviser John Reilly, the Democratic front runner exploded, "This is getting to be a pain in the butt. The press isn't going to let go of it." After a flurry of calls to his Washington headquarters, Mondale ordered that the delegate committees be disbanded Immediately. Said he: "I just want to get rid of them, period...
...laugh and marvelous expression convey her character's wifty lunacy. Everything she knows she has learned from television; she rants and raves about the savagery of the Third World as she plans to boil her husband "like a lobster--lobsters don't feel pain." Guy Strauss as Mitch, the butt of most of these jokes, plays the vegetable (or lump, or carrot) brilliantly; when he begins to recover towards the end, his twitches and moans are appallingly funny...