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Furthermore, no one has been able to capture the essence of and crush public figures like Trudeau. In Doonesbury, he doesn't bother to draw actual portraits of prominent politicians. Instead, he reduces them economically and hilariously to talking symbols, conveying their characters with just a few strokes of the pen. Dan Quayle is nothing but a talking feather; George Bush a Few symmetrical lines floating in the air and David Duke a talking swastika...
...movie, Penguin and Catwoman make hilarious hate. Pfeiffer had cats crawling over her supine body and, in one scene, a live bird in her mouth. "Fortunately," she says, "I have a pretty big mouth." She also had a longtime crush on her character. "Catwoman was a childhood heroine of mine," she says. "She's good, bad, evil, dangerous, vulnerable and sexual. She is allowed to be all of those things, and we are still allowed to care about...
...once the rage of the Paris Bourse, has posted a 20% decline since opening day. In a letter to shareholders two weeks ago, company chairman Robert Fitzpatrick confessed that there could be "no assurance" of profitability by Oct. 1, when the French fiscal year ends. Last week's attendance crush may be the start of a turnaround, but the finale to the park's shakedown woes is still in Tomorrowland...
Part of the novel's fun is the flip, slightly unreal dialogue the characters toss back and forth. Corrine, who has a crush on Jeff, asks why he won't talk seriously about his feelings. He answers, "Basically, I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them, and women sleep with men so they can talk with them." A nonwriting author of great reputation is described as "Henry James with bowel movements." Social gradations are precisely noted, and the , level of smart-alecky prose is satisfactorily high, although there are lapses. McInerney uses amuletic and quotidian...
...want to crush them," the freshman added...