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These paintings start the train of American fantasy that will lead to San Simeon and Caesars Palace. They are wildly corny but in a weird way convincing: they bite off so much more than they can chew that you can't help assenting to them. And the target of their moralizing is none other than Andrew Jackson, who Cole (and many of his patrons) feared was becoming an American Caesar, filling the once virtuous republic with the corruptions of opportunism. It seems that Cole the landscapist and Cole the magniloquent history painter were not, as was once thought, different artists...
...government can indeed walk and chew gum -- create jobs and guard against inflation -- at the same time. Now, who can explain those headlines that say, economy booms; stocks plummet...
...goofy abettors. Scar, whom Irons plays with wicked precision as the purring offspring of Iago and Cruella De Vil, hires a pack of hyenas as his goons: clever Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), giddy Banzai (Cheech Marin) and idiotic Ed (Jim Cummings), who says little but is happy to chew voraciously on his own leg. The hero's helpers, who save Simba in the desert and teach him their live-for-today philosophy, Hakuna matata -- Swahili for "What, me worry?" -- are Timon (Nathan Lane), a streetwitty meerkat, and the lumbering wart-hog Pumbaa (Ernie Sabella). They chew beetles...
...these weapons of mass destruction, that teenagers and grievance killers would have bazookas." Gun advocates, he said, "kept insisting you have to stop the criminals not the guns, and I'm sympathetic to that. But I told them the time has come to do both. We can walk and chew gum at the same time...
...admiration for what they see as the laudable discipline of Singapore, they don't realize that the ruling People's Action Party has created a climate where citizens must live in constant fear and intimidation of their government. There aren't many nations where it's a crime to chew gum or even to forget to flush a public toilet...