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...same token, some representatives of the world's largest minority, the humor-impaired, regard the women's response to an oil-tank trucker with whom + they keep playing fender tag as excessive. Every time they encounter him, the guy proves by word, smirk and obscene gesture that he's a chauvinist dinosaur. When he inquires if they're "ready to get serious," they reply encouragingly. What he doesn't know, of course, is that they're thinking metaphorically, with a little help from director Scott, with whose surrealistic reinvention of the West -- one-third desert, one-third industrial wasteland...
Their response uses a tactic that lawyers call "arguing in the alternative." It's as if an attorney defended a client accused of stealing a car and denting the fender by saying, "He didn't steal the car, and if he did, the fender isn't dented, and if it is dented, it was dented before my client stole...
...attempt to find and question the people who were escorting the commissar at the time of the accident. They had all been shot. I suggested looking for the driver. Fortunately, he was alive. He told us there hadn't been a serious accident at all, just a dented fender. But he did recall hearing a thump in the back of the covered truck. That was the end of the commissar...
...purring. Five Lincolns, two Chryslers, an estimated $200,000 on the rubber, not including drivers -- all courtesy of the beleaguered budget. Massachusetts' Silvio Conte settled behind the wheel of his own flame red Pontiac GTO convertible, top down, and roared back up Pennsylvania Avenue. The logo on the back fender read THE JUDGE. Message there. These arguments over the people's money are destined to be long and bitter, but there is every evidence that no matter which side wins this case, the taxpayers will...
...tricky thing about pinning down opponents of randomization is that they tend to do what lawyers call "arguing by alternative." It's like defending a client accused of stealing a car and denting the fender by saying, "The fender isn't dented, and if it is, my client didn't steal the car, and if he did, the fender was dented before he stole...