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...performances match the tone. Cox and Ferrer are two sides of the same counterfeit corporate coin, and Kurtwood Smith (the most prominent punk) is one baaad malefactor. Weller, as the one good gunslinger in town, manages to convey emotion through the merest slit in his helmet. But the film is less an actors' showcase than a smart, grim satire. The only TV program to be seen is a slapstick variety show. Commercials peddle the 6000 SUX, the car of the future that brags about getting only 8.2 m.p.g., and a holocaust home-video game called Nukem. Giggly anchors read news...
...awarded honorary doctoral degrees -- his 53rd, in acknowledgment of which he dropped a chestnut: "Now that I am a doctor, at least I can get on the golf course on Wednesdays." At Vassar, Playwright John Guare and his spouse Designer Adele Chatfield-Taylor both spoke, after flipping a coin to see who would go first. (She did.) In a boisterous, though notably erudite, bit of counterpoint to the family theme, graduates of Harvard's School of Public Health tossed into the air hundreds of condoms encased in envelopes that bore the Latin message ad venerem securiorem. Translation: "for safe...
...like a coin of Peter the Great...
...that all ideas are derived from sensory perceptions? How many users know the difference between a regular grand jury and a grand jury? And how many of us know enough about German literature to use sturm und drang correctly? Or about the Peloponnesian War which inspired some historian to coin Pyrrhic victory, to make a golden apple of this idiom, rather than dilute its meaning every time...
Some 78% said their reason for "leaking" was to counter false or misleading information. Linsky, who interviewed almost 500 White House officials and members of Congress from the Johnson through the Reagan Administrations, concludes, "Leaks are the coin of the realm, the way of life in Washington...