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...grew up in Marblehead, Mass., the alleged birthplace of the U.S. Navy and the home of the "Spirit of '76," the famous painting epitomizing the pluck and tenacity of the soldiers of the Revolutionary War. Marblehead is a small, historic town marked by sites at which both Lafeyette and Washington slept...
Peter: "Check out his eyebrows. They're all plucked. I'll trim mine and stuff, but never pluck them all out like that...
...week was thrown into the sun. The bright, hot rays of instant fame enveloped him: newspapers put him on their front pages and magazines on their covers; he appeared on all three network morning shows the very same day; and the Clinton Administration and the Air Force exploited his pluck and Gary Cooperish innocence, determined that he be asked no questions about the confused policy that had him flying over Bosnia in the first place. When properly combined, three volatile elements generate American celebrity: the media, the public and the spinmeisters who manipulate them. In the case of Scott...
...swarming down on us. You know what they were? This was right after a big fire season, and after fires go through a forest area, sometimes mushrooms pop up. So all the Chinatowns from New York to San Francisco sent every cousin and nephew and niece out there to pluck mushrooms. There was an army out there all right, but it was an army of old men, women and children picking mushrooms for Oriental grocery stores all over America...
...called character development. Ah, but character disintegration, character vaporized and sucked away by the office air conditioning, that's another matter. Bronson describes a sales floor where twitchy, sweating wretches are flogged back to their cubicles by a demented sales manager when they sprint for the rest rooms. They pluck random, cooked statistics from their Quotrons, bark hopeless lies into speed-dial phones, fill impossible quotas by selling federal Resolution Trust bonds back to the very failed savings and loans into which the government is trying to pump life-giving formaldehyde...