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...breach steps Couch Potato. While CNN is mired in weather footage, CP wants to show you newshounds at their best: tenacious, principled, witty and attractive. We're all like that. Really. Don't believe it? Just watch His Girl Friday (1940). Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell are the ink-stained beauties in Howard Hawks' razor-witted screwballer about a newspaper editor who tries to bring his ex-wife back into the fold with a nutty crusade for justice-by-media (and by relentlessly belittling her new fiance). Not to be missed...
...tricks offered range from the classic to the absurd, but are all reasonably priced--almost everything is under $10. Oldies-but-goodies fill the shelves: disappearing ink, joy buzzers, whoopee cushions, two headed nickels, trick decks of cards, finger traps and snakes that pop out of mixed nut cans. They're joined by the less-clicheed instant worms, fake spilled nail polish, a hugely popular rubber brain, fake parking tickets and life-like stick-on faucets...
...more interesting ones are completely vegetarian; many contain cheese or seafood as well as meat. The table tried four: a special of pork tenderloin on a bed of white beans, garbanzos, and sauted mushrooms; scallops and squid with a puff pastry shell in squid-ink sauce; baby octopus vinaigrette and an enlightened burrito filled with shrimp, lobster, and spinach in red pepper sauce...
...first two were terrific: rosemary encrusted chunks of pork were complemented perfectly by the succulent mush-rooms and beans, and the tiny scallops and shrimps in squid ink were fresh and perfectly cooked. The pastry on top was fluffy and tasted vaguely sweet, like vanilla. In both cases, the sauce adhered so perfectly to the meal that the plates looked clean enough to be reused. The baby octopus was tender, but needed more fresh tomato and onion chunks to liven it up, as well as a bit more red wine vinegar for tang. The canelon, as the fourth tapa...
Clinton can claim a budget surplus even as the nation sinks deeper into red ink because federal bookkeeping allows counting the assets in government trust funds, predominantly surplus Social Security revenue, as part of the nation's spending pool...