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...head of the Bunker household, England is a "fag country," his wife Edith a "dingbat," the Renaissance master Michelangelo "that Dago artist," and Women's Lib a "dreaded disease." As for the theory of evolution, Archie tells his son-in-law Mike (Rob Reiner): "We didn't crawl out from under no rocks; we didn't have no tails, we didn't come from monkeys, you atheistic, pinko meathead...
...London during the blitz, and the scarred faces of empty, bombed-out buildings are pockmarked from gunfire. Streets are blockaded by ganglia-like stretches of barbed wire and by "antiterrorist ramps"?thick bands of bitumen or concrete nine inches high that force traffic to slow to a crawl. On the red brick walls surrounding vacant lots, the children of Belfast?perhaps the most tragic victims of the war?have scrawled afresh the old slogans of idealism and hatred: "Up the I.R.A." and "Informers Beware" in the Catholic sections, "No Popery Here" in the Protestant areas. If nothing else...
...been called "the hottest mimeograph machine in town," and sometimes he is led to excesses, as when he suggested earlier this fall that he would be willing to "crawl on my belly" to the Paris Peace Talks to gain release of U.S. P.O.W.s. More recently, together with Connecticut's Abraham Ribicoff, he called in the Senate for the withdrawal of British troops from Northern Ireland and for Irish reunification, a proposal that earned him the distinction of being condemned by the British Prime Minister...
...true that Taiwan is a dictatorship--an incredibly prosperous one. But its feeble attempts at repression seem absurd beside Mainland China's genocide, mass executions and theocratic thought control. As a believer in individualism and responsibility I find your ideas nauseating. Whoever wrote them should crawl back under his rock. Park Chamberlain...
...heart leaped. From the orange license plate on the slowly approaching car, he knew it was an Israeli and not a silver-tagged Gaza vehicle. Mahmoud' s friend, Wasfi Mussa Masharawi, 16, sauntered out into the middle of the street, forcing the car to slow to a crawl. Mahmoud tossed his grenade into a rolled-down window. The grenade had a four-second fuse, and he was gone before the explosion...