Word: pets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Certainly we don't have to do anything to reduce the deficit. The deficit is going to go down anyway as the economy swings into growth. The beauty is that people are going to believe it's due to "Clinton fiscal conservatism." And with Al's pet BTU tax we get the anti-pollution cover...
MUCH OF MONDO 2000 STRAINS CREDIBILITY. Does physicist Nick Herbert really believe there might be a way to build TIME MACHINES? Did the CRYONICS experts at TransTime Laboratory really chill a family pet named Miles and then, after its near death experience, turn it back into what its owner describes as a "fully functional dog"? Are we expected to accept on faith that a SMART DRUG called centrophenoxine is an "intelligence booster" that provides "effective anti-aging therapy," or that another compound called hydergine increases mental abilities and prevents damage to brain cells? "All of this has some basis...
...obsessive device: the exaggeration of the aura of consumer objects, a devotion to gloss and glitz. An ice bucket or a set of "limited-edition" whiskey bottles in the form of a choo-choo train is recast in stainless steel; a porcelain effigy of Michael Jackson with his pet ape is slathered in bright gold glaze. Once in a while, Koons contrives an image of curious intensity, such as Rabbit, 1986, a stainless-steel cast of an inflatable plastic bunny, once pneumatic, now rigid and manically shiny, possessing some of the virtues of Claes Oldenburg's work 20 years before...
...that objective from a pledge to a "goal." Backing away from an unrealistic target sooner rather than later can save him considerable political trouble down the line -- as long as he guards against eroding the discipline necessary to cut the debt as special pleaders seek increased funding for their pet projects. Every step that seriously swipes at the deficit will require a time-consuming dance of consensus building. Assuming that Clinton's fancy footwork represents the beginning of this exercise, it is wrongheaded to beat on the new Administration for slipping its timetable. Speed would be nice...
WYATT PALMER IS THE ASSIStant city manager of Five Oaks, Michigan. His wife Susan likes to walk on her hands, pull her pet rabbit out of a hat and construct miniature stage sets. Aunt Ellen is writing the Bible, and Wyatt's sweetly psychotic mother Jeanne makes up 50 cents words like nutomberized, descorbitant and corilineal, which she defines as "so normal, it's strange...