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Whining Democratic senators who said we had "smart bombs but stupid children" sounded more like upset youngsters who got too small a piece of cake at the big party than outraged politicians. Sure, you could agree to disagree, but you couldn't disagree and make any difference...
...quarters. Two bicentennial quarters with the proud-looking drummer on the back. This was a truly charmed day. I pulled the plastic open with a quick, sharp snap. I then slowly separated the sticky Zoink! from the white cardboard square, leaving most of the bottom of the cake sticking on the cardboard--to be licked off later. So far, they were just like real Twinkies...
...fine shopping day not long ago, I noticed something unusual as I carried out my Twinkie-check ritual. Drake's Cakes, a kosher kid's chemical cake heaven, had a Twinkie clone on the rack. My heart skipped a beat, a tear came to my eye. I thought I heard the Star Spangled Banner playing off in the distance. I could finally complete the immigrant experience embarked upon by my great-grandfather so many years ago when he decided that he and his children after him were to be Americans. True Americans. The "Twinkie" would be the final piece...
...people skills are not in doubt. Since coming to Washington, Skinner has surprised White House aides by volunteering to make telephone calls and give speeches on problems unrelated to transportation. He has gone to great lengths to woo members of Congress, in one instance personally delivering a birthday cake to Representative Glenn Anderson, then 76 and chairman of the Public Works Committee. Skinner became a regular golfing partner of Dan Quayle's, and was treated by Quayle to a $27,000 trip at taxpayer expense to the Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia aboard Air Force Two earlier this year...
...safest way of venting the anger that the hostages could not afford to direct toward their captors. In one instance, a group of hostages coaxed their guards into getting a birthday refreshment for Sutherland. When the guards returned with cupcakes, Sutherland protested, "How come Father Jenco got a big cake, and I only get cupcakes?" Jenco insists Sutherland's distress was real. On rare occasions, tensions erupted in hostility, such as the well-known episode in September 1985, when captors invited a group of hostages to select among themselves who should go free. Anderson and Jacobsen nearly came to blows...