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Music: Spike Jones' orchestrations called for pie pans...
...like Laura or Chloe, played it straight for a minute and then revved it up double-time and orchestrated it for tuba, kazoo and other instruments that mimic indiscreet bodily functions. Then he set this raucous pastiche to a junkyard syncopation of washboards, cap pistols, Klaxon and bicycle horns, pie pans and garbage cans -- augmented by bird whistles, brays and tag lines from radio ads ("Super Suds!" "Bromo Seltzer!" "Beeeeee Ohhhhhh!") -- until the whole thing sounded the way Fibber McGee's closet clattered, the way a Tex Avery cartoon looks, the way Bart Simpson's mind works...
...Supreme Court, and now Bill Clinton wanted to talk to him. Could he come over to the White House? Minutes later, Babbitt, in chinos, and Clinton, wearing jeans and an open-collar shirt, were sitting in the upstairs kitchen, carving up the remains of a mangled apple pie, drinking decaf and watching the late, come-from-behind victory of the Phoenix Suns over the Houston Rockets...
...proposing a budget smaller than the previous year's. The actual difference -- about $102 million sliced out of $31.6 billion, or just 0.3% less than the current budget -- still caused critics to carp and unions to bawl. But Giuliani remained adamant. "Disagree with us about how we distribute the pie," said the Republican, "but agree with us that it has to be a smaller pie." It was Giuliani's most substantial signal that New York City -- the biggest spender of them all -- was joining a movement trying to transform big- city gimme government. Wielding corporate-style tactics, the CEO mayors...
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