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...campaign that was almost totally devoid of passion, the finale was decidedly dramatic. At Labor Party headquarters in a Tel Aviv hotel, supporters giddy with hope eagerly awaited the returns. Across town, in an auditorium draped in blue-and-white bunting, Likud backers stood around glumly, like pallbearers at a funeral. At 10 p.m., as polls closed around the country, all eyes at both headquarters turned to the TV screens. But wait. Anchorman Haim Yavin announced that there would be a delay before the first projections could be broadcast; an error had been made in feeding data into the computers...
Best Friends and Club Founders Anne Gordon and Sally Rausch deliver monologues wholly devoid of irony on the brilliance of Republicans from Grant to Hoover and sound like soap opera shrinks...
...women who drift in and out of their new lives, they are, as Mickey puts it, "involved in a variety of pharmaceutical experiments," which, as Eddie completes the thought, "test the American dream of oblivion." Another way of putting it is that their lives are full of incident and devoid of coherence...
Zuckerman, a witty, urbane socialite who raised funds for Senator Gary Hart's presidential campaign, might seem an unlikely buyer for U.S. News, a magazine that prides itself on a down-home flavor virtually devoid of literary flourishes and serves a predominantly Midwest and Sunbelt audience. Founded as a daily national newspaper in 1926 by David Lawrence, a syndicated columnist, it evolved into its present format after World War II. In contrast to TIME (U.S. circ. 4.6 million) and Newsweek (U.S. circ. 3 million), U.S. News downplays reportage of a week's events in favor of analysis...
...distinguished Harvard English professor wrote an article in Mademoiselle magazine calling "college girls" politically apathetic, thirsty for security, and devoid of intellectual curiosity. A few days later, 25 Radcliffe students picketed outside the professor's home. "Dig this challenge to your intellectual curiosity," read one of their placards...