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...dove into the politi- cal arena with its "Rock the Vote" campaign, aseries of public service announcements featuringrock stars that encouraged young Americans to hitthe ballot boxes with the same enthusiasm theybring to dance clubs and record stores...
...handful of licensed blasters, Mackie says his job for Perot involved drilling a row of holes in the seabed, filling each with several sticks of dynamite, and detonating them electrically with a battery kept on his barge. On several occasions, he says, Perot put on snorkel gear and "dove the site with us and watched the drilling going on." Perot then watched from the shore as the charges were set off. None of this came to the attention of the Bermuda government...
...confirmed this impression. The opening numbers seemed downright cute by comparison. During one song, a security guard was impaled and carried around the stage. Then Slymenstra Hymen performed a kind of projectile menstruation. Then Oderus Urungus defecated in a bowl and catapulted his shit to the audience member, who dove for it as if they were catching foul balls at Fenway. Then Oderus introduced us to his "girlfriend," a bloody doll pinned to a spinning rack which he dismembered and raped...
...army to use "force, strength and blows" to stop the intifadeh. He is the ex-general who, during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, proposed tightening up the siege on Beirut by cutting off food and water to the populace. This reserved, taciturn man is no tender heart, no dove...
This could seem like a terminal display of down-home misogyny. Women treat men like cow patties; men get even writing country music. But Lovett touches on more elemental issues: religion and death. Religion can make you laugh, as in Church, where a ravenous minister eats "a great white dove from up above." And death can offer solace. In Since the Last Time, a man at his own funeral is happy "Seeing all those people I ain't seen/Since the last time somebody died...