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...appendix. Wilson arrived in an ambulance as the roll call was in progress at 1:30 a.m. Friday; hospital aides trundled him onto the Senate floor in a wheelchair, a needle and intravenous tube still inserted in his arm. Senators gave Wilson a standing ovation, which he turned to laughter by asking deadpan, "What is the question?" He voted yes on the budget resolution, but Hawaii Democrat Spark Matsunaga rushed in from his Senate office to vote no, and the tally was deadlocked at 49-49. Vice President George Bush was in the chair, however; he had cut short...
...Help! Help!" I scream, but am answered only by my echoes, "Who are you people? Kidnappers? Terrorists?!" The only response is cruel laughter, "Who are you, then?" I gasp...
When some of the Republicans returned to the chamber, to another standing ovation, it was clear that some of the fury had dissipated. "Mr. Speaker," said Michel somewhat sheepishly to his old golfing buddy, "we weren't going to stay away forever." The members burst into laughter. Replied O'Neill: "I am delighted to see my old friend back. As Joe Louis said, 'He can run but he can't hide...
...pleasure is seeing Rex Harrison, 77, and Claudette Colbert, 81, apparently just as vibrant and elegant and, yes, young as when they became stars more than half a century ago. When, during their autumnal courtship, Harrison declares, "My age is 48," and Colbert responds that hers is 22, the laughter they evoke is indulgent, not disbelieving...
Thus a passage like the following, from the new book, fails to produce laughter--not because it's unfunny, but because it's very nearly true: Whenever you read that someone in the Reagan administration is pragmatic, what you're really being told is that he is not crazy. Reporters have their ways of gauging such things. Let's say, for instance, that a new wizard of supply-side economics is received at the White House to demonstrate his theory that poverty can be eliminated simply by eliminating all tax on capital gains a theory he illustrates with an impressive...