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...wants to disintegrate Earth with his "Iludium pew-36 Explosive Space Modulator" because Earth obstructs his view of Venus. Earthkind's hero, Bugs Bunny, snuffs out Marvin the Martian's modulator fuse and saves the world, a feat that, theologians agree, must rank slightly ahead of Daffy Duck's space exploration in quest of "Aludium Phosdex, the shaving-cream atom...
...first eye is the amateur's video camera. it has the milling people in shorts and T shirts, the hot Atlanta night, then--blast and blast wave (no video hallucination, you can feel it), heads in unison dip-duck-flinching, abruptly frozen time (an instant that seems terribly long), until at last the crowd's comprehension comes to a scurrying critical mass, and then--the surge just short of panic (young mother and father each crouching-hurrying to push a child's stroller away from the violent whatever-it-was); and, crisscrossing the screen, center to right, a young...
...platypus is an animal with some duck-like and some beaver-like properties, but it is neither. Similarly, if one plays close attention, in the past few months Bill Clinton and Bob Dole, have subtly shifted their positions and have begun to sound very much unlike their predecessors or even themselves just a few years ago. In the last few months, the two candidates have increasingly displayed their proclivity to say anything, do anything to please the voters. While such malleability is not necessarily a new phenomenon in the American elections, what sets this election apart is the fact that...
Branson, a self-described "adventure capitalist," is a business-creation engine who was clearly born in the wrong place. In England wealth is traditionally inherited rather than created, which makes him an odd duck in the land of mad cows. He belongs in the U.S., the wellspring of genius entrepreneurs and shameless hucksters alike, which is why the flashy Times Square stunt is a perfect way for Branson to signal the next phase of his U.S. expansion. Says Ian Duffell, president of Virgin Retail Group in North America: "We've planted our flag here...
...looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck," said Gary Stolloff, owner of the BeBop Burrito restaurant in Harvard Square. "Loker Commons looks like the food court of a shopping mall. If it looks like a restaurant why should there be a different standard than other restaurants...