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...suggest an offhand wit that whispered to the audience: Nothing matters, it's only a movie. The blitheness was in keeping with Bing's radio personality, and probably with his real one. Bing enjoyed a genuine or seeming ad-lib; sometimes he'd use it like a mantra. In January 1950 Louis Armstrong, a guest on Bing's radio show, remarked that he had just concluded a tour of Scandinavia. Did you "Skol" much? asked Bing. Satchmo's reply: "I was the skolinest cat in town." Bing loved this exchange so much he cited it in his autobiography "Call...
...income tax, Bush's statements have been a masterpiece of misleading rhetoric. The statistics he offers--that the top 1 percent of households earn 18 percent of national income, yet pay 33.5 percent of income taxes--may seem compelling, as is his mantra that lower-income families will receive a greater proportional reduction in their income taxes. But Bush ignores that the income tax has become primarily a tax of the rich. Three out of four families now pay more in payroll taxes, the 15-percent tax that funds Social Security, than they do in income taxes. Yet Bush...
China has become a nation of spiritual seekers in the past decade, as faith in communism waned following the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Wang Ze, a 52-year-old consultant for frozen-foods companies, became a Tibetan-style Buddhist four years ago after meditating to the Tibetan mantra for compassion, om mani peme hum (which Dadawa later turned into a pop song). He and his wife converted one of their four rooms into a shrine. At the time, they didn't know anyone else who practiced. Recently, he says, "we hosted an initiation ceremony for 17 Chinese." A senior lama...
...mantra appears to be: If you've got a cause, get yourself to Washington for the weekend. Dozens of organizations, from the National Organization for Women to the Christian Defense Coalition, will be there, protesting for and against George W. Bush, for and against abortion rights, for and against the death penalty. The interests are varied, but the intent is not: Black leaders plan a "Day of Outrage" to protest the "illegitimacy" of Bush's presidency, while the Justice Action Movement will mobilize against "corporate dominance of the political process," and protest to abolish the electoral college. Everyone gathering...
Irwin Hentschel ran unsuccessfully for California Lieutenant Governor in 1998. A friend on the Bush transition team asked her to send along a resume, but she hasn't heard anything. She salutes the mantra of smaller government and more individual responsibility, but she believes "more hands-on involvement from Republicans" would help them better understand the complexities of life beyond the Beltway and the boardroom...