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...liked both "Home of the perennially not-so-bad Utah Jazz" and "Utah: where U come first." And it seemed possible she'd use "where the water is as clean as our language." But the next night, just before she was to deliver her lines, she showed me her speech, which had been vetted by the Governor and Hatch. Full of platitudes about their education system, it was almost as dorky as North Dakota's bragging about having the country's "highest verbal and math SAT scores." I was hoping Montana would walk over and beat the crap...
...those weeks where the news played like bad, improbable satire (except at the core of the whole White House mess, where the novelistic verisimilitude of Lewinsky's taped conversations, their palpable high-school ickiness, lent her charges an immediate measure of credence; Clinton had better pray "the big creep" doesn't become his best-remembered epithet). In one bad satire-like coincidence, Hollywood has a not-so-bad satire in current release: Wag the Dog, in which a President is accused of ravishing a "Firefly Girl." The producers were reported to be cautiously optimistic that the White House crisis would...
...routine is the same in their big-screen debut, except that Best Brains chose a not-so-bad film, This Island Earth--Universal-International's 1955 space opera about American scientists kidnapped to a distant planet, where they are attacked by macrocephalous monsters. The MST3K prologue is a bit ragged, but once This Island Earth kicks in, so does the Brains' mother wit. It finds the absurd everywhere, from the studio logo ("Doesn't the fact that it's Universal make it International?") to the ethereal, annoying ringing sound that accompanies the aliens ("Now we know what the world sounds...
...Duke's second goal, a perfectly executed corner shot by Melissa Panasci, that really broke Harvard. It came with only 2:18 to play until halftime and turned a not-so-bad 1-0 deficit into a 2-0 trench...
...scorned." Each Middle American wants to be judged on his own merits, as an officer of the law complained with great clarity: "Why does everyone say the police? There are thousands and thousands of policemen, and they're individuals?good and bad and not-so-good and not-so-bad...