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...bull moose by heart attack. After trudging along with its opponent for three-fourths of a game on the strength of a pesky defense and decent transition game, the team will suddenly come to an abrupt stop. Its eyes will get big. Its heart will pound. Its nostrils will flair. Its neck will stiffen. And then: thunk...
...Armey's flair for pit-bull partisanship has catapulted him from obscurity to the upper ranks of the new Republican regime on Capitol Hill. Nine years ago, as a freshman Congressman, he was dismissed by the Almanac of American Politics as "hardly likely to be a power in the House." Now he stands ready to assume his job in the next Congress as majority leader and right-hand man to Newt Gingrich, the future Speaker of the House. That might not be the sort of influence one would expect from a man whose pickup truck sports a bumper sticker that...
...music are carrying on the Irish vocal tradition. Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of the rock band the Cranberries, the ever feisty Sinead O'Connor and newcomer Katell Keineg (born in Celtic Brittany, she lives in Dublin) have distinct personalities, to be sure, but they all have a flair for emotional and vocal dramatics -- a typical Celtic intensity -- and they all partake of that peculiarly Irish mix of melancholy, anger and romance. Moreover, they all share a feminist perspective, singing songs about women taking control of their lives...
...Rourke's look at "the lighter side" of overpopulation, famine, ecological disaster and other global environmental woes, the reader begins to wonder whether somewhere between writing Republican Party Reptile and this latest effort the author suffered a stroke. Left intact are O'Rourke's accustomed descriptive flair and facility for throwaway lines -- " 'dying like flies' is not a simile you'd use in Somalia. The flies wax prosperous and lead full lives." Gone, however, is any faculty for building an argument...
...Second Bull Run and Chancellorsville, and survived. Some of the best passages in Family occur when Frazier follows, in a rented car, the marches undertaken by the 55th and tries to take himself back in time. Usually he succeeds, and when he fails he still shows his familiar flair for comic relief: "I figured that my suitcase, briefcase and golf clubs probably weighed about the same as the full kit and rifle carried by a private in the 55th. I considered parking the car and trying some of this march myself, fully loaded, just to get an idea what...