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...excuse me for a second. I think I have to hurl. (At this point, your humble correspondent succumbs to a bout of seasickness, while director Petersen takes the opportunity to deliver a monologue into the still-running tape recorder. His statement follows verbatim...
...guided tour of the last half century. I am impressed, reading these speeches, at how often Buckley's assessments at the time have been dead-on - about Mao's cultural revolution, about Norman Mailer, about other extravagances. I like the way that Buckley stated his mission in 1964: "To hurl back... the effronteries of the twentieth century...
What lies at the heart of these disputes over seemingly trivial details (does Mrs. Smith in The Bald Soprano hurl the socks across the stage and show her teeth as Ionesco's stage directions indicate, or does she keep her mouth closed and merely toss the socks as in Nicolas Bataille's original Paris production?) is a question about the seat of power in theatrical productions-and ultimately a question about the very nature of theater. Does the playwright, as the creator of the story being told, have the first and last word over how that story...
...Bradley advisers told TIME they did not use polls or focus groups to test the plan's appeal or measure its weaknesses; to do so would have been to play old-school politics. But Gore's advisers immediately conducted polls to test their attacks. And Gore was ready to hurl them at Bradley on Oct. 27, when the candidates took the stage at Dartmouth College for their first televised debate. The debate was only a few minutes old when Gore charged that Bradley's plan would cost "more than the entire surplus over the next 10 years" and "shred...
...grass pokes him in the eye. Moss laughs. "He doesn't want to eat. He's too little," she says. "He's just practicing." After a few minutes, a 10-year-old female elephant walks toward us. She plops in front of the car and uses her trunk to hurl dust over her back. Crossing her back legs, she leans forward as if to kneel. Her tusks dig into the ground, and she extends one of her back legs behind her. "Oh, totally ridiculous," observes Moss. "She's feeling silly and wants to play, but there...