Word: oiled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Further, family values, a flashy issue of opportunity, has about it a certain eloquent irrelevance -- something like the old waving of the bloody shirt, or the snake-oil vending that has always gone on in American politics. North Carolina Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, a baroque declaimer of the Southern school of rural demagogy in the '30s and '40s, was a genius of flavorsome insinuation. "Do y'all know what ((my opponent's)) favorite dish is?" he would ask slowly of his "God-fearin', 'tater-raisin', baby-havin' " constituents. Then in a burst of disgusted indignation: "Caviar!" The word came...
This cabal is crashed by the narrator, Richard Papen, a penniless transfer student who had taken some Greek. He is as close as the book comes to an objective center, but the device gets shaky because Richard is a facile, silly liar, boasting about an imaginary family oil well. He will do anything to be accepted by these sophisticates. Anything...
...this offer comes with a lot of footnotes. The government has not yet decided exactly which enterprises will be up for sale, though by 1994 the program will cover most small industries and most housing. Many major holdings, like defense plants, collective farms, nuclear power stations, oil wells, mines and forests, will be excluded...
...hands of an artist, the tools of digital imaging offer a whole new creative medium -- one that combines the realism of photography with the malleability of oil paints. Once an image is converted to digital form, it can be loaded into a computer and manipulated by any number of software tools. Spots and blemishes can be erased or smoothed over. Shadows can be deepened or lightened. Images can be cloned, combined, sharpened or blurred and then painted from a palette of more than 16 million hues. The final product can be put to paper on a new generation of color...
...Gulf war, Bush's alleged triumph, accomplished far less than was claimed: Saddam's still there and still making us look like fools. And I for one would have respected Bush more if he had admitted that we were in it for our own "selfish" national interests like oil. His pretense that our motives were altruistic has now caused the world to look to us for help in areas like Bosnia and Somalia where we have no strategic interest and cannot afford to be bogged down. The idea that government should function as protector of its own country's interests...