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Buster seemed so solitary, so oblivious to sentiment, that no one could touch him or catch him. The classic Keaton climax is of Buster walking blithely down a Los Angeles street while a herd of women, cops--cows, even--chases after him. And when he is caught, when Boy and Girl end up married, it's not necessarily a happy ending. In the coda to College we see the couple as newlyweds, then as young parents, then as bickering old folks, then as names on their tombstones. Sometimes...
...motherly sheep dog adopts him, a fatherly sheep dog growls dubiously at him, and a kooky duck gets him in trouble. But Babe wins respect, animal and human, when he drives off some sheep poachers, in the process gaining his first sense of vocation: he'd like to herd sheep himself. The dogs think he's too nice a guy for that line of work. But the sheep, tired of being nipped and woofed at, take a shine to him because Babe speaks politely to them and treats them with respect. He's sort of a liberal humanist on trotters...
That's right. Not just flying Elvises, but flying, chain smoking Elvises. While the herd of Presley sycophants rushed to the smoking section every twenty minutes, the oh-so-American flight attendants were working up a sweat to keep them in their seats with their "seat belts safely fastened...
...cancer. When he was eight, she sent him to the Bethesda Home, a 50-child establishment on the banks of Savannah's Moon River, which was erected on the site of an orphanage by the same name founded in 1740. The grounds are dotted with live oaks, a herd of cattle roams its own 100-acre pasture, and there is an Olympic-size pool. But there are also intensive instruction in Christian values, psychological counseling and a grueling "total restriction" discipline program that most residents care to experience only once. The home has paid Steve's tuition at a private...
Replacing the Democratic liberals was a herd of Republicans ranging from the born-again to the libertarian, led by the china-and-crystal-sm ashing Congressman from suburban Atlanta, Newt Gingrich, the next Speaker of the House. After a short burst of conciliation on election night, he seemed disinclined to throw Bill Clinton a rope. The President, he said, would be "very, very dumb" to try to stand in the way of the new conservative agenda. And to sharpen the point of the election, he called the Clintons "counterculture McGoverniks...