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Well, three weeks into this little experiment, it is clear that the novel will not be written. Unlike at college, where my dirty clothes can pile up for weeks, laundry for working roommates needs to be done frequently and well--not wrinkled or damp like most of my clothes at school turn out. When there's a kitchen in the room, trash is also a high maintenance activity, not just a weekly afterthought. Our tiny dish-washer needs to be run a few times a day. Dust and other strange substances collect on every surface in the place...
...those mock Cabinets shows, Zyuganov's politics are malleable. He is, at once, red enough for old-style Communists and white enough for hard-line nationalists. At a late-April meeting with the candidate in the town of Sosnovy Bor, due west of St. Petersburg, an old man with damp eyes and a Soviet-flag pin stuck in his lapel reverently described Zyuganov as ''one of the best leaders our party has ever had." At a May Day rally in Moscow, the heads of various nationalist movements praised Zyuganov as someone who shares their anti-Western, often anti-Semitic beliefs...
...work of liberals. Liberalism is dead, so dead that Democrats have all become moderate Republicans, and the heavy hand of Big Government is now limp and damp and trembly. TQO is the heavy hand of Big Business. You want to see a big mitt, this...
...sensuousness Poussin put in his classical scenes; Corot's nymphs are just studio models. In Bacchante with a Panther, 1860, the girl teasing the big cat with what appears to be a dead starling looks like Mlle. Goosepimple, thanks to the gray French skies above and the damp earth under her bottom...
...with the shenanigans at Pomp Duck, self-described as "a restaurant out of control." The staff (actors, mostly from Germany) are nuts. They steal your bread, feed you soup, mummify you in packing tape, give you a quick shampoo. When waiters announce the fish course, beware--you will get damp! There are also fat ladies in skimpy costumes, a man who plays Vivaldi on liquor bottles, an opera singer treated rudely by the maitre d' and a food critic who can't stop complaining. "It's like eating at Denny's!" he shouts. The whole thing plays like a Teutonic...