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...Bush as soft on taxes, like his father. To counter that, Bush proposed a tax cut massive enough to impress fiscal conservatives, but one that also included a pro-working family element. Result: a $1.6 trillion promise. The irony: Forbes never caught fire. Bush found himself saddled with a jumbo tax cut against an opponent--McCain--who argued for being fiscally prudent and paying down debt. Bush went on to win the nomination, of course, but he's still lugging around his tax-cut plan. And McCain's criticism stuck...
...budget must be less than the price of a jumbo popcorn bag at the plex. The format is simple: just a fast-talking man (host Ed Grant) and his film clips. But this celebration of "everything from high art to low trash and back again" is the most eclectic and useful movie show on TV. Grant has spotlighted unsung or unseen European and Asian directors, silent classics, favorite divas (e.g., Tuesday Weld) and surreal rarities (a moon-walking midget on the Venezuelan variety show Sensationalissimo!). Grant also pays tribute to "deceased artistes" you might not be aware had died...
Brush was the most colorful figure on the 1997 Harvard baseball team, a squad with more hues than a jumbo box of Crayolas. He wore thick glasses and robust muttonchop sideburns and strolled around the right-field bullpen with his uniform shirt untucked and his pitching hand down his pants...
...Pick-pockets on the Harvard campus would come up dry, except in the pants of this anonymous female where everything smells of cocoa butter. To grab her cash, one must squeeze her way through the gooey layers of cocoa butter lotion and jumbo roll of cocoa butter lip gloss...
...sequences as well. Right now we simply don't have the technology to clone some chromosomes." And as for the medical breakthroughs that these projects promise, they are still a few years away. First, it's going to take everyone some time to sort through all the technical mumbo-jumbo and overcome concerns about sharing information. Then any resultant technologies will have to be put through the usual testing. For now, though, Venter and his colleagues can savor the moment...