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...almost to the garage when the radio crackles with a fresh report. Again a suspicious person is reported in the Mallinckrodt lab area. The lights flash and sirens wail anew. The description is the same as earlier. This time, the report is about five minutes old. The voice on the radio tingles with excitement...
...Suddenly, the chase crosses the road--a flash of gray and blue followed by the blur of Bates's black uniform...
...would have, if there were any controlling grown-up authority on the National Desk, any intelligent superego left to say, "Spike it, it's a phony" - worked themselves into a state about the idea that the Bush people had commissioned a campaign ad containing the word "RATS," subliminally flashed on the screen in the midst of a discussion of "bureaucRATS" or? "DemocRATS."? The diabolical idea (a brainwashing trick that the GOP's mind-control people picked up from the Commie Reds north of the Yalu) was to have this message, "RATS", flash subliminally in the mind of the late Lawrence...
...estate in his new, dream-filled land. He could see the billboards on top of the buildings every day, the pictures of the movie stars and recording artists smiling down on the luxury cars that purred past, money on parade. He was surrounded by the colors, the noise, the flash and the folly of the commercial opportunities available in the United States. The irony wasn't lost on Lenny Krayzelburg, child of the Soviet Union. Why was his piece of this grand picture missing? If there was something for everyone, why was there nothing for him? He would be better...
...moment. And perhaps that's not as ridiculous as it sounds: It's possible to imagine the RNC advertising staff watching Castellanos's ad with a distracted eye, and missing the reference altogether. (Of course, that line of reasoning makes it difficult to explain how the split-second flash was visible to a Seattle television viewer; the registered Democrat called the Gore campaign to register surprise over the ad's content...