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...Democrats were bought and paid for just like Republicans by farm interests," Brown said. "Farm workers don't have tuxedos, so they can't go to $1000 cocktail parties, so they're out of the game...
Finally, there is no reason why the Council should try to take on the characteristics of a sovereign governmental body. It should work altruistically as an agent for students' wishes, not as a breeding ground for future Washington cocktail party cannon fodder. Hopefully, no more of these substanceless, money-wasting ads will appear. Council members spend too much time worrying about their political images, and not enough time finding out what students really want...
...this introduction, Warsh calls this the "social world of economics," It's world that includes interesting little tidbits perfect for cocktail party conversation--like the fact that John Maynard Keynes, the force behind interventionist government theory, was " a fairly promiscuous, always intense denizen of a hot-house society...
...their huge faces streaked with pity." What he really sees is a drive-in movie screen. In "Work" two men strip an abandoned house for scrap wire; afterwards they go to the local bar, where the barmaid "poured doubles like an angel, right up to the lip of a cocktail glass, no measuring." This "angel" bartends in a grungy bar, but to the sobbing protagonist she is nurse and mother...
...they satisfy McNally, who mixes didacticism into his realist story to make for an unholy cocktail. He winds up with a diffuse, inarticulate bundle of ideas, but his agenda is obvious throughout. The dedication betrays his inflated vision of the word. "To the living." He wants to make sweeping statements, to express the human condition. To this end, he stuffs ponderous, unwieldy philosophical proclamations into the mouths of his characters. Jenna, the swimming coach who thinks that her pornographic part prompted the suicides, tells herself. "In the beginning was the word, and the word was made flesh, and once passion...