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...fact, his campaign owes a debt to Gingrich, who in 1994 did the most to convince people that the government had replaced the Soviets as their mortal enemy: it overtaxed its citizens, divided families, squandered the nation's resources and disseminated softheaded values. But a year after their declaration of war, Gingrich and Dole lie bloodied in the budget trenches, and the political climate is if anything more divisive, unpleasant and ineffective than at any time in memory. Pollsters find that voters are at once unsated and disgusted: if the Republicans have faltered, the resentment against Washington politicians remains more...
There is a double-jointed consciousness at work in the dramatics of big weather. Down in the snowstorm, we are as mortal as the deer. I sink to my waist in a drift, I panic, my arms claw for an instant, like a drowning swimmer's, in the powder. Men up and down the storm collapse with coronaries, snow shovels in their hands, cheeks gone a deathly color, like frostbitten plums...
...they go through veal cutlets"? She tries, in the best modern fashion, to intellectualize her desires: "One of the things that interests me about sex is that it is a conspiracy of improvised myths. Very effective in evoking forbidden or hidden wishes." But she knowingly places herself in increasingly mortal danger...
...must be true--nothing else makes sense. Yesterday's win over New Hampshire was too perfect for a mere mortal to conceive...
...slow the growth of Medicare spending by $270 billion over seven years. For all the flammable rhetoric it generated, the move was only part of a much larger showdown over budget balancing that could ultimately unhinge Wall Street and rock the whole American economy. And what is this mortal-combat phase really about? The G.O.P. freshmen and their allies insist that the deficit must be balanced according to their timetable and not a minute more; the White House wants to take it slower...