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...rational equilibrium should look like, but what is economically rational in an irrational world and how best to get from here to there." At week's end he had not decided whether to take the job. If he does, he has a quick enough wit to appreciate a gag that is circulating in Washington: he should be called not anti-inflation czar but king-King Kahn...
...cultural phenomenon, black holes also appear in slogans on T shirts and bumper stickers (BLACK HOLES ARE OUT OF SIGHT), and are the subject of banter by Johnny Carson and other TV talk show hosts. A gag advertisement in the sci-fi magazine Analog by a company named Nothingness Unlimited promoted "black-hole disposal units," invisible devices (in seven decorator colors) that suck up unlimited waste...
...Roosevelt. Young Alsop had his collegiate defenses of F.D.R. demolished by a rectilinear old Republican who declared: "A man who does not dislike and distrust Franklin Roosevelt by instinct, without asking for reasons, is no gentleman." Plenty of Americans feel that way about Nixon: it is an allergy, a gag reflex...
...secod class are the legitimate whistleblowers, including Frank Snepp, who despite unchallenged care in preventing the compromise of secret material, run the risk of a lifetime gag order and the penalty of forfeiting any earnings from their writings...
...Hope hasn't bombed so much in years. We don't know what happened. Our guess is that his gag-writers were all off trying to make time with Jodie Foster...