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...That is why John McCain's quest for reform has intrigued almost every journalist in America as well as millions of voters. It is the man biting the dog. It's the fish out of water. It's downright counterintuitive. That's why we're fascinated. Here you have a conservative Republican from a conservative state who is fighting against an institution - soft money - that disproportionately benefits himself and his own party...
...There's a significant shift toward vegetarianism, obviously. Polls show that some 20 percent of the population is now seriously contemplating vegetarianism, and restaurants are turning largely toward chicken and fish. This outbreak may shift attitudes a lot more sharply than the mad cow issue did. That initially brought down beef consumption by about 20 percent, but it soon recovered its old levels. But this foot-and-mouth outbreak may prompt a more significant and long-lasting move away from meat...
...occasion, especially in the 1860s, Manet would show his full ordering skill in a composition that anticipates what Cezanne came to in the 1880s. Still Life with Salmon, 1866, is such a painting, a wonderful balance between stability and its opposite: you can feel the weight of the fish and the density of the white tablecloth, but the knife in the foreground is precariously balanced, and the blue bowl with a lemon in it has been tipped, self-consciously and for no very apparent reason, toward your...
...Scarlet Pimpernel," which we watched over the weekend. Leslie Howard is wonderful, especially in the fop scenes when he says things like "Damn me!" and "Odds fish!" as he advises the Prince of Wales about the ruffles on his sleeve...
...iatrophobia: ... doctors ichthyophobia: ... fish illyngophobia: ... vertigo insectophobia: ... insects iophobia: ... poison isolophobia: ... solitude ithyphallophobia: ... erection...