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...voters--so why isn't the Kasich plan catching on? It doesn't resonate with retired seniors like Radford, who pays little federal income tax and so wouldn't benefit from it, or with small-business owners like Don Rudd, 53, of Des Moines, who called Kasich's idea "fluff" during the Congressman's swing through Iowa. And now it isn't even resonating with Republican congressional leaders, whose initial enthusiasm quickly faded--first into nervous, qualified support and finally, by last week, into utter indifference and near disdain. Even some conservatives agree with Florida's Joe Scarborough, who dubbed...
...back of his mind. Still, he says, he's happier than he's ever been. The excesses of his youth, he claims, are gone. The twice-divorced Mellencamp is married again (to model Elaine Irwin), and he says he's through chasing women. He's gone from singing pop fluff to voicing, in mid-career, his concern for farmers, small towns and, of late, humankind in general...
...roommates fluff their hair and brush their cheeks, Linda J. Moon '99 looks on from her bedroom door...
...look you in the eye and tell you hard truths about big things and serious things." Even Democrats like Sheinkopf agree. "This scandal will redefine our politics," he says, "and take it back to basics. The candidate who succeeds will be plainspoken, honorable, not a lot of fluff. People want a President with fewer complications...
Unfortunately, the simplicity of Lyons's characters, plots and dialogues becomes overwhelmingly annoying and frustrating. Not only is Dog Days generally unbelievable and insulting to many minorities, it is fluff that probably wouldn't even fly on a hot summer's day at the beach. Essentially, the moral of the Dog Days is that if you don't steal dogs from the Mafia, your life will be straight out of the Eddie Bauer catalogue. Wait a minute--the Eddie Bauer catalogue? No, according to Lyons, life for Boston's yuppies is only worthy of J. Crew...