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...defy those people who oppose handgun control to point to any other weapon that can inflict such lethal damage from a distance and, at the same time, can be so easily concealed. To suggest that a knife or a club could accomplish what a handgun can is nonsense...
...longtime nickname "Cap the Knife" testifies to his reputation as a ruthless budget cutter. His anti-Soviet rhetoric is at least as bellicose as that of his Cabinet colleague Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Reflecting on the recent European visit of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, the West German newspaper Die Welt complained that he came across like "a Roman proconsul," and a top British defense official said, "He has a way of dropping grenades around the china shop." Another British diplomat softened that blow a bit by saying, "I'd call his performance one of stubbornness with charm...
...plot is arguably silly, though that is not always a bad thing in a musical. What is bad, however, is the fact that the show was clearly finished in haste. Sellon, who wrote last year's Pudding show A Little Knife Music, started A.W.O.L. as a Pudding show and once rejected, put it into independent production. Pudding shows are a genre unto themselves and defy analysis--but A.W.O.L. is a strange hybrid. It relies heavily on puns and innuendo for its humor, and yet it's not nearly as raunchy and satisfying as the annual transvestite theatrical. At the same...
...impulse, and handguns are perfectly responsive to the purpose: a blind red rage flashes in the brain and fires a signal through the nerves to the trigger finger - BLAM! Guns do not require much work. You do not have to get your hands bloody, as you would with a knife, or make the strenuous and intimately dangerous effort required to kill with bare hands. The space between gun and victim somehow purifies the relationship - at least for the person at the trigger - and makes it so much easier to perform the deed. The bullet goes invisibly across space to flesh...
...Congress. In that time, as I say, we've been able to make about $3.2 billion in savings, but we could do a lot more. Any organization that spends $222 billion dollars has got to have some waste in it, and that's what we're after. So the knife's just as sharp as ever...