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Likewise with his campaign stump speech, which has the devilish thrust that Dole's so manifestly lacks. Not until you hear Buchanan go ballistic on immigration or trade can you fully grasp what the word "earshot" means. He has a different term for it: "going iambic," marshaling his punch lines into warrior poetry. "They are honed," he told TIME. "You work on it and you work on it and then you get the cheer line...
...gains with his anti-NAFTA, anti-Big Business salvos, the more willing traditional G.O.P. allies will be to send Dole their cash and their votes. And because he is being besieged from right and left, Dole may no longer have to blow away the competition to triumph in the devilish expectations game. Now, the party elders hope, all he needs to do to come out ahead is to come out ahead...
...rich novels like The Gift, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Pale Fire and even that great American road novel Lolita are cleverly defended against casual entry. Nabokov's short fictions, on the other hand, are thresholds to his themes and some of the most nape-tingling prose and devilish inventions in 20th century letters. So better late than never, The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov (Knopf; 659 pages; $35) is a welcome edition to the shelves of old admirers and a chance for entry-level fans to sample the author's delights...
...younger generation is reviving punk, and it may be a particularly devilish form of revenge: Thanks for making me a child of divorce, Dad, now here's punk rock right back at you. This week the Berkeley, California-based punk trio Green Day, whose 1994 album, Dookie, sold 8 million copies, will release Insomniac, a short, sharp album of pop punk songs about turning tricks, picking scabs and hating one's parents, which is expected to be one of the biggest-selling CDs of the year. Two other new punk albums,...And Out Come the Wolves by the Berkeley band...
...conservatives, the more devilish issue is one of ideology, particularly on the question of curbing unwed pregnancy. "The welfare system is not going to be changed by taking money from New York and sending it to Texas," said David Mason, a congressional expert at the Heritage Foundation. "It might be changed by focusing on illegitimacy. That's why this is the more important fight...