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...trades . . . And if you don't like it, you're fired." The canned comeback from Martin, whom Steinbrenner has dumped twice before: "You haven't even hired me yet." The born-again manager has a reported fiveyear, $2.5 million contract, but if he cannot inject some pennant fever into last year's fifth-place finishers, George no doubt will bounce Billy ball once more...
...domestic front, the party must inject a greater degree of fiscal responibility into existing social programs. It should not immediately bridle at calls to reassess existing entitlements fundings, as the Kennedy wing has so often done. An initiative to ease the looming crisis over Social Security--where the Republicans have abdicated all responsibility, resorting instead to mere sloganeering--would be particularly welcome...
...original treat, medical experts testified for the defense that psychologically troubled people had been known to inject themselves with insulin. Dershowitz wrote...
...always has been a force nourished by ignorance and based on lies. Much of the criticism of Israel today is based on knowledge of the sad truths the Begin government's uncompromising policies have created in the Middle East. To call that criticism anti-Semitic is to inject venom into a vital public debate, one that ought to be as free as possible of extremist rhetoric. Equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism is certainly as wrong-headed as equating Zionism with racism. Neither illogical leap covers any distance towards the paramount goal--a just and permanent peace for both...
What we are left with then is a clumsy exercise in compromise. The short vignettes do not succeed as horror because the basic cliches are never even slightly twisted around or brought to life--only heavy-handedly presented. An attempt to inject humor into a subject like "Create" emerges as a limp, indecisive parody. Only "Creeping Upon You" contains a truly visceral moment of horror among all this tame nonsense, and even that has more to do with the by that time welcome presence of 40,000 live cockroaches than any storytelling skill. Creepshow is disappointingly bland, commercial...