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...growing increasingly urban. What were only recently one-horse outposts now exfoliate for miles into the blazing environs, their citizens housed in air-conditioned comfort and assuming plentiful water as a God-given right. Among the seven states served by the Colorado River, California has become the 800-lb. gorilla at all negotiations, its cities expanding, their thirst apparently unquenchable. The Old West here comes into direct conflict with the New: the leathery rancher in Wyoming with his herd to water vs. the condo-dwelling Sybarite in Laguna Beach with a Porsche to wash and two hot tubs to keep...
...gorilla of the party has a fiscal mess to solve in New York. But the Governor's fund-raising clout and popularity among Democratic activists make him the only one who can afford to bide his time...
...Irving Howe once called a certain type of faculty member a "gorilla with tenure." You can confront the arguments for political correctness on campus, but the struggle has to be constant. There will always be people who try to enforce a lazy intellectual position. The best antidote would be to expose the holders of those views to what a real dictatorship is like and what happens to people when a set of ideas is enforced...
...Soviets' best is not good enough, especially when flying against an enemy that may have its entire air force at its disposal. "When you're a pilot, you don't want equality," says Ben Lambeth, a senior analyst at the Rand Corp. "You want to be the biggest gorilla in the sky." Thus, the emphasis on stealth and other technologies that give pilots the capability called "first look, first kill...
...that. The demonizing of Saddam has escalated along with the war and seems omnipresent in the West. Last week the op-ed page of the New York Times ran a David Levine drawing titled The Descent of Man. Running from left to right were representations of Clark Gable, a gorilla, a chimpanzee, a cobra and, finally, a diminutive, flyspeck Saddam standing waist-deep in an oil slick...