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...Buchwald is the nation's most popular political humorist because he is not too funny. Readers of his syndicated columns never have to worry about the embarrassment of laughing out loud in packed trains or at crowded lunch counters. In addition, Buchwald's wit is a comfort, not a goad. He is like a town crier assuring the citizenry of the status quo: the sheep are still in the toxic meadow, the cows in the surplus corn, the politicians reliably hypocritical and venal...
What is needed, at this late and perhaps last-minute juncture, is for the Administration to redefine the problem in Nicaragua in a way that it can be solved, through diplomacy as well as military pressure, and then for the Congress to support the contras as a goad to diplomacy and to do so without attaching conditions that would mitigate or eliminate the pressure they actually exert on the Sandinistas...
...back from a bullet wound to address a whistling, cheering Congress. The outpouring of good will helped propel both significant spending reductions and a huge tax cut through Congress over that summer. Some have suggested that the Reaganauts might once again translate public sympathy for Reagan into a congressional goad. "If he returns by the fall, now having licked the Big C, he becomes an even more formidable political figure," says White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. To be sure, Reagan's stock with the public is already high and likely to go higher. His favorable rating rose from...
...Proudly unassimilated, Mom replies to her English-speaking children in impeccable Cantonese. Nor will she surrender to Occidental displays of emotion. To give thanks or praise or a show of love to her No. 1 daughter Geraldine (Laureen Chew) would be to compromise her matriarchal authority. She will only goad Geraldine to marry that nice Chinese-American doctor from Los Angeles. Then an old woman can follow a fortune teller's prophecy and turn to the business of dying...
...gets exhausting, this constant goad to joy. If you're not smiling--after we made all those wonderful pills and cell-phone plans!--what's wrong with you? Not to smile is un-American. You can pick out the Americans in a crowd of tourists by their reflexive grins. The U.S. enshrined in its founding document the right to the pursuit of happiness. So we pursued it and--at least as commerce defines it--we caught...