Word: loafed
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...rock in its giddy, roiling infancy. The singing voice is familiar too. That pure tenor -- its piercing power and excellent elocution suggesting a glee-club star who's just been kneed by the school football coach -- could belong only to Marvin Lee Aday, known to the world as Meat Loaf. First as Eddie the zombie biker in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), then as star of writer-arranger Jim Steinman's ambitious album Bat Out of Hell (1977), Meat Loaf gave clarion clout to rock's first decadent period. The Bat LP sold oodles...
Like all Mamet plays, Speed the Plow is all talk and no action. Pompous airheads loaf around the stage, vomiting a constant stream of meaningless platitudes, feigned emotions and boasting bombast. With sinister skill, Mamet makes good intentions look laughable, self-analysis futile and reform impossible...
...MEAT LOAF...
...Palestinians are not like the Lebanese -- they have reached a broad national consensus about their destiny. And they are not like the Syrians -- they have truly changed their minds about Israel. They have finally decided, after a hundred years of war with Zionism, to settle for the half-loaf: self-government in their own homeland in coexistence with Israel...
...Health: "If one is going to question the use of psychotherapy for the stress of going through a divorce, then one should also question physical therapy to rehabilitate a knee so a patient can return to skiing." Even so, Clinton's plan is likely to offer only half a loaf. As Tipper Gore told a Senate committee two weeks ago: "The final plan may not contain everything I would like it to. Anyone who is passionate about any aspect of health care must be prepared for that." Those words contain a good deal of political wisdom for shaping...