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Susan's story of October 25 rocked Union. She explained to police that she was on her way to visit a friend at about 9:00 when she stopped at a red light and encountered her attacker. A black man in his twenties, wearing a plaid jacket and jeans and waving a gun, out of breath as though he had been running, jumped into the passenger seat: "Shut up and drive or I'll kill you!" Ten miles out of town he ordered her out of the car, a 1990 burgundy Mazda Protege. She told police that she begged...
...that now. Both warriors, clad in plaid pants with mustard yellow polo shirts and tweed hats, hurling cybernetic golf balls at each other and wielding bioengineered pitching wedges...
After that celebrated turn of phrase, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin--who has been seen, of late, pumping the flesh of men of less repute--refused to share a podium with Leibovitz. All this from an octogenarian clad in plaid, with tooth-white hair and a black yarmulke...
Like a lot of Young's other recordings, Sleeps with Angels combines reverie and disillusion in equal measure. A feisty, scruffy throwaway like Piece of Crap, an assault on environmental hypocrisy, shows that Young passed along more than a taste for worn plaid shirts to those upstarts in Seattle. (The current generation of rock musicians considers Young something of a godfather.) The tune has a snarling, implacable drive and guitar work that can make your back fillings vibrate...
...Montana, where politicians often dress like lumberjacks, Republican Senator Conrad Burns derides his Democratic challenger as "Bill Clinton in a plaid shirt." In a North Carolina congressional race, the Republican candidate is airing videotape of his Democratic rival jogging with the unpopular President, as a voice-over intones, "Look who Martin Lancaster is running around with in Washington!" Other TV ads for Republicans across the country are using special effects to morph their Democratic opponents' faces into the visage of President Clinton -- who must wonder why, if he has all these clones on Capitol Hill, he can't pass...