Word: polley
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...onstage to recount his hoodwinking of a sulky Sultan (Peter Jeffrey), his dalliance with the Queen of the Moon (Valentina Cortese), his flirtation with the goddess Venus (Uma Thurman), his captivity inside a giant fish, and his long-odds battle with the Turkish army. Except for young Sally (Sarah Polley), his listeners don't know if he's telling the truth. But his viewers know; Gilliam has used the magic of film to show them the wonders Munchausen has limned. Lovers dance in midair in an underworld waterfall ballroom. The baron sails to the moon in a ship wafted...
While wags talk of elections turning into "pissing matches," drug testing has become a new campaign fad. In Kentucky, Republican Congressional Candidate Jim Polley challenged Incumbent Chris Perkins to meet him at a hospital for a urinating match. Perkins did not show up, but Polley gave his sample anyway. Perkins facetiously countered with a challenge to take lie-detector tests, AIDS tests and chest X rays. Other candidates publicly joining in include Republican Congressman Thomas Kindness of Ohio, who is running against Senator John Glenn, and Democratic Senator Alan Dixon of Illinois...
This week's guest prognosticator is Robert Klitgaard, associate professor of Public Polley at the Kennedy School of Government and a special assistant to President Bok, author of an article entitled. "A Statistical Study of Professional Football Pointspreads...