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...step to the right by mulct of the 18-24 age group, of course, has not suffered from a dearth of scrutiny by the national media, and by the Reagan campaign, which has attempted to identify itself with such working class pop idols as Bruce Springsteen and John Cougar Mellencamp...
...minute). In the past five years, three huge new hotels, catering mostly to out-of-town conventioneers, have deluged the midtown area with lonely, well-to-do customers. Obeying the laws of supply and demand, girls from Harlem, Queens and states halfway across the country have flocked in to mulct the ever-growing clientele. Many of them are blonde-wigged Negroes sporting the furled umbrellas that seem to be badges of the trade...
...head rodent of the rat pack. From a hideout in a swamp, he sends them out with numerous blackmail messages threatening to expose the gangland's deepest secrets, his wife's extramarital capers, his partners' tampered tax returns. By hook and crook, he manages to mulct $3,000,000 in hush money. In a shabby shack, the kids rejoice around the suitcase full of loot; but while they grow frenetic, Quinn turns splenetic. Money, he decides in a jolting flash of insight, isn't everything, and in the end he sets the cash on fire...
...alone does not resemble a fugitive from a Vat 69 ad. Although her eyes seem candlelit with some private poetry of grief, she plays the regal scamp all evening, ornamenting with a playfully aristocratic touch the shoddy show goods with which Broadway's indomitable pitchmen hope to mulct the theatergoing muzhiks...
...forced Kim to resign his party post, last week sent him on a 50-day foreign inspection trip as his "ambassador plenipotentiary." No sooner had Kim left than investigators began exploring rumors that he had used his powerful C.I.A. job to make a stock market killing and to mulct kickbacks from government contractors. Before 3,000 screaming politicians in Seoul's Citizens Hall, Park announced grimly that he was bowing out of the presidential race. "I cannot help admitting." he said, "that the revolutionary government has failed completely in achieving its political objective-the emergence of new political personalities...