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That Bush knows the jig is up seemed evident in the second presidential debate last week -- a forum that resembled a teach-in rather than a brawl. Scripted to strike again at Clinton's character, Bush clearly didn't relish the role. Swatted down by Clinton, who wouldn't play, and then by the moderator and the audience, Bush avoided pressing his charge that Clinton's demonstrating against the Vietnam War while studying abroad should be received as a disqualifying act. Experience shows that whenever Bush says something like, "That's what I feel passionately about" (as he added...
...music swells. A heart is cut out. Two hundred soldiers and 200 Indians writhe together in mortal combat, all on the screen at the same time, By the time that Uncas meets his tragic end, mortally wounded and flung from a high cliff, who cares? Besides, a nice little jig is playing while it happens...
...jig is up. After three weeks of paying its workers with IOUs because it has been unable to resolve a deadlock over an $8 billion budget deficit, California's state government has been called by its banks. Three of the state's largest -- Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Union Bank -- have curtly informed Sacramento that they will no longer honor the IOUs, nearly $2 billion of which will be outstanding by the end of this week. Bank of America had been handling about 30% of the IOUs since California began issuing them on July 1. Said a spokeswoman...
...Fred Schneider. Familiar motifs abound: hot pants, UFOs and mother earth. The music on the album is just as colorful as its cover design, with lyrics full of sex and in-your-face politics. And, in true B-52s fashion, still as infectious, each tune inspiring a hip-shaking jig...
When you first pop this debut CD from Chicago'snewest Irish beat band into your player, theenergetic drive of the drum combined with thewhimsical melody of the accordion, flute, and yes,even the fiddle will make you want to get up anddo a funky Irish jig...