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...former had been the onlooker, both fascinated and wounded by media culture and its power to dictate desire and nostalgia. You could not look at early Warhol (Marilyn-as-virgin, in full drag-queeny apotheosis on a gold ground; Golgotha, envisioned in repeated views of an $ execution chamber with its electric chair and its sign enjoining SILENCE) without sensing that the pressure behind such images of abased sanctity came from a Byzantine Catholic boyhood...
...that really is rich, coming from a character who is completely at ease gabbing about his wife's gynecological problems, body dumps in Central America and the step-by-step procedure of killing a man in the gas chamber...
...There's been a meltdown in the NRC's star chamber," Dukakis is said. "The commission's action to strip governors of their power to protect the men, women and children of their states is as alarming as it is lacking in common sense...
...Beverly Hills city council this week is expected to pass an ordinance that will completely ban smoking in restaurants. Proponents argue that people from surrounding areas will flock to the smoke-free eateries. But Mike Sims of the local Chamber of Commerce, which represents 74 restaurant owners, says the law is unnecessary: "Everyone recognizes the problems associated with smoking, but we've not had any complaints from the customers." Owners tried to substitute a voluntary plan that would require each restaurant to post its smoking policy and allow customers to decide which to patronize, but the council rejected that idea...
Rawlings is based in St. Louis, but the basic components of baseballs come from all over the world. Each component must satisfy quality control standards before the assembled ball enters the torture chamber...