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This is a race where big guns are flying in for both sides. The AFL-CIO has been bombarding the district with ads attacking Riggs as a Friend of Newt, who has about the same local approval ratings as Dracula. Two weeks ago, the National Republican Congressional Committee finally struck back with ads saying the unions were trying to buy the election...
...more," says Woodhull, "or you won't get the punch lines." And Leno knows to "never assume an audience knows who people are." Instead of just saying, "And Warren Christopher said," Leno explains, "I'll say, 'Warren Christopher, the Secretary of State--you know, the guy who looks like Dracula...
...Books are the enemy of my kids; they are something that make [them] feel stupid," Rollins said. "With Dracula, we began to possess the book--the students reacted...
...late 20th century, when the media magnify every private witlessness of public figures, then even the appearances of traditional majesty are at risk. Walter Bagehot wrote of the monarchy in the 19th century: "You must not let daylight in upon magic." You must not let daylight in upon Dracula either. Relentless public exposure is the death of grandeur, especially when there are tapes from the phone conversations. The tabloid is to the House of Windsor as a summer dawn to the Transylvanian count...
...beginning of her chapter on health and emergencies, for example, Hanson writes, "Few things suck more than being sick at college, unless you count Dracula." And a bit later, in the section on athlete's foot: "Like us in so many things, fungi, too, prefer intimate attachments with the buff. But don't rush for the barbells--you too, inactive one, may be blessed by union with some microbes whose biological clocks are telling them to settle down...