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...Friday , just hours after former First Lady Nancy Reagan called Virginia GOP Senate hopefulOliver Northa liar, Vice President Al Gore got himself in trouble with the following jab at North's $17 million war chest: "He is banking on the fact that he can raise enough money from the extreme right-wing -- the extra-chromosome right wing -- to come in and buy enough advertising to just overwhelm the truth with blatant falsehoods." North's campaign staff seized on the phrase to accuse Gore of insensitivity to children with Down's Syndrome, pointing out that extra chromosomes cause the condition. Gore...
...kept things from him that he should not have kept from him . . . " North praised Ronald Reagan's presidency as the "greatest" of his lifetime and said he didn't want to "get into a fight with a lady." Today, Vice President Al Gore began Round Two with his second jab at North in as many weeks, calling him a "pathological liar" and disgrace to the Marine Corps...
Passing well is one thing. Throwing three incompletions in 17 tries is another. The real story Saturday was Bucknell's sharp-shooting quarterback and a Crimson defensive backfield more vulnerable than a Lennox Lewis left jab. Glus passed at will, connecting on touchdown passes of 22, 21, 24, 54, 46 and four yards. Add to that total a 65-yard run by Lemon and flawless extra-point kicking by sophomore Rich Miller, and you get Bucknell's 42 points...
...naivete of the peace movement, the hypocrisy of the Establishment and the perfidy of the North Vietnamese. And he dismisses the notion that America's national interests would have been better served if Nixon had set an early withdrawal date (and in the process lands a little jab -- "Would that history were as simple as journalism" -- at the contrary treatment of this point in my book...
...revues, At the Drop of a Hat and At the Drop of Another Hat. They toured throughout the '60s, with Flanders providing dry commentary and lead vocals and Swann at the keyboard, adding his thin but enthusiastic tenor to such whimsy as The Gasman Cometh, Song of Reproduction (a jab at stereo enthusiasts) and The Hippopotamus Song, an ode to "mud, mud, glorious mud" that somehow became a plea for international peace, complete with a verse in Russian delivered by Swann...