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...instead for turning "our thoughts to the realities of regulation and the changes that are needed." Complete deregulation, he insists, would lead to cutthroat price competition and protect neither the airlines nor the passengers. Says Adams: "You don't need to burn the house down to roast a pig...
...some respects, the new police mood seems anomalous. It has been years since they heard the radical chants of "Pig!" Those insults-combined with the long list of Warren Court rulings in favor of criminal defendants-marked a nadir for police morale. Since then, however, the eight-year Republican Administration has pumped $5 billion through the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, much of it to improve local police departments. Under Chief Justice Warren Burger, the Supreme Court has decidedly tilted back toward the prosecution side. By many measures, the policeman's lot today would seem to be a happier...
...other reason for this recovery lies in Epstein's Petruchio. The sheer power of his voice manages to contain all of the potentially explosive elements in the play. Epstein, who appears to know how every line of his part has ever been read, is as challenging, excited, scheming, pig-headed, ironic, reflective and ultimately loving as he demands his Kate...
...love poems, erotic cartoons-and heart-wrenching returns to his wife and daughter in Mississippi. (Faulkner and Wife Estelle remained married from 1929 until his death 33 years later.) "The South ... was part of the rhythm of his life," says Meta. "He was really at his happiest raccoon or pig hunting with his cronies, the town blacksmith or the drugstore clerk...
...movie producer who had promised her a part. Once she gets over the shock of Kong's first spectacular pickup, she treats him like all the apelike movie moguls she has had to fend off. She tries helplessness ("I can't stand heights"), anger ("You goddam chauvinist pig ape"), some impromptu analysis after striking out at her captor ("It's a sign of insecurity, like when you knock over trees"), even guileful seduction ("I'm a Libra, what are you?"). Eventually she and Kong actually begin to build a ... well, a relationship, something that was never...