Word: deadbeats
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...LIKE A DEADBEAT WHO COMES TO THE party but refuses to have fun, Robert Smith, lead singer of the CURE, knows the seductive power of denial. Drifting over dirgelike beats and churning guitars, Smith's alienated lyrics and choked-up vocals have helped make the Cure the most accomplished and popular purveyors of British Mope Rock. On Wish, album No. 12, the band continues to fuse harmonic innovation with New Wave nihilism. Smith allows himself fleeting moments of optimism, and on one song actually uses the word happy. By the time the record closes with End, however, he has slipped...
...Governor, Clinton has thrown most of his effort into early-childhood intervention and education. Social Security numbers are recorded on birth certificates to help trace deadbeat fathers. He increased teachers' salaries but insisted on a controversial competency exam. Parents who don't show up at teacher meetings are fined $50. Starting in 1993, failing students will not be allowed to get a driver's license. Clinton has expanded Head Start and launched school-based health clinics (where condoms are distributed, much to the outrage of the religious right). While other governors have taken rich states and made them poor, Clinton...
...falling all over themselves to praise Clarence Thomas's rise to power. The message, not even implicit, is that anyone (and everyone) can be a Clarence Thomas, if he only tries hard enough. The implicit message is that anyone (and everyone) who isn't a Clarence Thomas is a deadbeat welfare mother...
...court-ordered overhaul of its school-financing system, Williams' forces have bombarded the electorate with commercials linking Richards to lesbianism and liberalism. In lieu of proposing ways for the state to close the budget deficit, Richards blasted the airwaves with poorly substantiated spots suggesting that Williams is a "deadbeat" guilty of shady business deals. With feigned humor, Williams wondered aloud whether Richards, who was a problem drinker until 10 years ago, is tippling again. Then, playing the injured party, Williams two weeks ago told her during a joint appearance in Dallas, "I'm here to call you a liar today...
...argument with Mr. Thomas, a light clicked on in my head. Three years ago, the Internal Revenue Service had snooped around my neighborhood asking about a Michael G. Riley and his horrendous credit history. After many phone calls, the IRS admitted it had the wrong man. Perhaps my deadbeat namesake had returned to haunt my credit rating. Hearing this tale, Mr. Thomas softened a bit and told me to send him some identifying papers. Then he dropped another bombshell: Citibank, he said, had discovered a "death alert" filed on my Social Security number in 1981. So not only...