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...some comics, the subject of Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan is as fertile as Bush-Quayle. Will Durst, who refers to Limbaugh as "Jabba the Talk Show Host," says, "Buchanan had a killer instinct; he wasn't afraid to lick up the blood. But Rush leaves it there and just chews off the flesh." Harry Shearer, the actor (This Is Spinal Tap, The Simpsons) and host of his own politico-comic radio show, is kinder, gentler to Limbaugh: "This country runs on personality, not on ideas. I think if Rush were spouting diametrically opposed ideas, he'd be just as popular...
...course of two days, her husband faced accusations of adultery, backpedaled on abortion and overhauled his political team. Mrs. Bush leaped into the fray herself, staking out a position on abortion well to the President's left, criticizing a top Bush aide in public, and then getting in a lick or two of her own at Bill Clinton. "I'm feisty as the dickens," she said in an interview with newsmagazine correspondents...
...That seven-day period is based on an hour ortwo a day, not really a straight lick," he said...
...parable of the strangers men and women are to each other. "In the daylight they have a sweet, tentative romance," he says, "but at night their ids are out, beating the heck out of each other. In costume the ids are active. No kissing there, only one good lick." It is the reverse of a fantasy like Pretty Woman. Pretty Woman goes into the store and shops; Catwoman goes in and whips off the heads of the mannequins. Julia Roberts tells Richard Gere she wants the fairy tale. Cat tells Bat, 'I would love to live with you forever...
...essence, above all, is in a ballad like The Dance, a palliative for a generation that has begun to lick old wounds as it approaches middle age. "I could have missed the pain," he sings. "But I'd of had to miss the dance." The video of The Dance shows images of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, and the song's autumnal, retrospective tone is what seems to touch millions of listeners. Says Sue Thayer, 43, a machine-shop secretary from Grayling, Mich., and a convert to country music from rock: "It's about love affairs gone...