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...from the Great Patriotic War who teaches neighborhood children the virtues of informing on parents, saving scrap metal, and mixing a fine Molotov cocktail. The final episode of this miniseries is particularly moving, as the children wave goodbye to Ed as he is dragged off to the People's Glue Factory...
...form self- perpetuating linguistic ghettos. "English, which has been our common bond, our unifying force, is being eroded," said Stanley Diamond, chairman of the California English Campaign. Governor Richard Lamm of Colorado, an outspoken leader on the issue, echoed the idea of English as this country's social glue before a congressional committee. "We should be color-blind but not linguistically deaf," he said. "We should be a rainbow but not a cacophony. We should welcome different people but not adopt different languages...
...projection of the lyrics on screens beside the stage helps the audience focus on the importance of what exactly the actors are mouthing but is admittedly distracting. With no dialogue, except for Brenneman's narration and one brief and painful incident of normal speech, the lyrics have to glue the show together and they...
...STRONGER GLUE and tighter seals will not help. As the chairman of Johnson and Johnson, the manufacturer of Tylenol, conceded, "No package is tamper-proof." The problem is not package design, but cultural design. To appropriate the hackneyed cry of the gun lobby--tainted pills don't kill people, people kill people...
Many legislators feel that new taxes are the only hope for true deficit reduction. Says New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, head of the Senate Budget Committee: "Taxes can be the glue that puts that package together." The leading candidate is an oil import fee, which if combined with taxes on energy consumption could raise as much as $30 billion a year. There would be minimum pain to consumers, since the new taxes would only offset the recent plunge in oil prices...