Word: clay
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...AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY: Michael Chabon's serious but never somber tribute to the golden age of American comic books leaps 600 pages in a single bound. The title characters create an imaginary pulp icon while they live through a vivid era of real-life melodramas from the 1930s...
...that brought us Suddenly Susan, but there's a bit of truth in there too. Comedy that breaks--rules, conventions, boundaries of taste--is a tricky business. Break too much, and the audience hates you. (No one has asked Roseanne to sing the National Anthem or invited Andrew Dice Clay to a NOW dinner in a long time.) But break just right, and you get the deep-from-the-gut, disbelieving laughter that mere benders will never know...
...funds to pay for the preparations. (At a Monday cabinet meeting which Gore did not attend, Clinton did create a special transition commission to help - when all the issues are settled. The Bush team will file with the IRS as a "Texas nonprofit.") Cheney named Austin chief of staff Clay Johnson as executive director of the transition, and campaign spinner Ari Fleisher as its press spokesman. And he hinted that Bush's administration might well include some Democrats...
...Andrew Jackson won the popular vote over John Quincy Adams. He also led Adams in the Electoral College, but with the electoral vote divided among four candidates, Jackson fell short of the necessary majority. Once again the choice went to the House. This time, with the support of Henry Clay, a contender who had dropped out of the contest, Adams won on the first ballot--and soon made Clay his Secretary of State. The 1824 crisis produced charges of a "corrupt bargain" that facilitated Jackson's election...
...very weird for me to think that my vote really matters," says Floridian Clay B. Tousey '02.. "Three hundred is a nice round number, and if it weren't for [me], it would...