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...though everybody else is tired of the game, he refuses to quit He wants an answer. His wife Jo (Frances Conroy) stops him, however, with a game of her own. One by one she tells their friends exactly who and what they are: Fred is a crude redneck, and Carol is his latest bimbo; Edgar is a spiritual cripple, and his wife Lucinda is an irritating bore. But everyone forgives Jo because she is visibly dying of cancer and is just radiating a part of her own intense pain. Jokes Edgar: "Any well-stocked larder should have ridicule and contempt...
...officials at the federal prison at Lompoc, Calif, 170 miles north of Los Angeles, had no idea how cleverly he had diagnosed their security system. Shortly after sunset one day last week, the prisoner approached the ten-foot chain-link fence with a pair of wire cutters, a crude ladder he had fashioned and an odd device made of a toothbrush taped to one end of a broom handle. Knowing that any sudden movement of the fence would set off an electric alarm, he propped the ladder near a gatepost for added support. He shinnied up and, with his hand...
Carter's tax is intended to skim off much of the increased revenues that the companies have been earning from the decontrol of domestic crude oil prices. But how big a tax, and for how long, have been major areas of congressional dispute. A joint congressional conference committee headed by Louisiana Senator Russell Long and Oregon Congressman Al Ullman finally agreed on the size. In a sharp horse-trade, they split the difference between a House-passed bill that might have yielded $277 billion over the next ten years and a Senate version that might have produced about...
Politically, some windfall tax was necessary to make crude oil decontrol, which is helping to cut energy consumption by raising petroleum prices to the world level, acceptable to both the Congress and the public. Whatever its political virtues, the tax hardly seems geared to help meet another key energy policy goal: boosting domestic oil production to the maximum. Instead of using tax incentives to coax as much crude as possible from the ground, the compromise so far amounts to little more than a confusing grab bag of mini-taxes. The three main components...
...constipation. "I want to talk to you about diarrhea," says the earnest pitchman. T shirts, sweatshirts and bumper stickers proclaim their aggressive little editorials. Some are mildly funny (a woman's T shirt, for example, that says so MANY MEN, so LITTLE TIME). But often they are crude with a faintly alarming determination to affront, even sometimes to menace. They are filled with belligerent scatology. Something or other always SUCKS...