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...unaccountable" government. Its recipients were invited to help slay the beast at the Doral over New Year's weekend at a cost of $550, plus greens and hotel fees. Party organizers Laura Ingraham and Jay Lefkowitz, both thirtyish Washington lawyers, promised "voodoo economics golf" played with glow-in-the-dark balls and "box aerobics" featuring punching bags done up to resemble well-known liberals. Hard liquor and cigars would be provided. And Ingraham told a reporter that the Saturday night Canterbury Tales Dinner Banquet would feature "wenches running around with sides of beef." There would be edifying seminars with guest...
Take a statement from yesterday's Times article: "Traveling 106,000 miles per hour, the 746-pound capsule streaked into the fringes of the planet's mostly hydrogen atmosphere, the friction of its passage producing a fiery glow as bright as the sun." Isaac Asimov, eat your heart out. Wonder-twin powers, activate...
...Amtrak from New Haven took a particularly unattractive route through Connecticut to the city. Edward carried his two monogrammed duffle bags overarm across the terminal platform to the overcrowded taxi stands outside. He waited in the cold, watching his own breath diffuse the orange glow of sodium street lamps. God they're ugly, he thought. New York City makes me sick...
...admitted he sometimes spends his uninspired moments in front of the glow of the television...
Morrow's memories draw the reader in from the start. "A heart attack feels like this," he writes. "A sickness suddenly surrounds the lungs, a sort of toxic interior glow--fleeting at first, lightly slithering, but returning a moment later, more insistent...Something dangerous has come inside and will not leave." As he lies in a coronary-care unit awaiting his bypass operation, Morrow begins to relate his own medical predicament to events in the outside world: "My mind went wandering about, working as a kind of journalist of memory and anger. I sought to connect my inner world...