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...sense of humor, but Connerly has been cracking me up ever since he agreed to chair that anti-affirmative-action crusade. I laughed out loud when I heard that in 1991 this man who says that his hatred for racial preferences is so intense it "seeps out of every pore" had registered his consulting firm as a black-owned business in order to keep state contracts worth more than $1 million (he says a state law compelled him to do so). And I found it wryly amusing that Prop 209's organizers picked Connerly as field marshal of their...
Like journalists who pore over dirty magazines in order to debunk them, The People vs. Larry Flynt wants to have it both ways. A relevant point of comparison is with A Clockwork Orange, a far riskier and more complicated film that in arguing for the sanctity of free will dared to create a charismatic protagonist whose exercise of that free will was pointedly horrific. Larry Flynt has the nerve to argue for the sanctity of free speech but--for lack of a better word--censors its excesses. Fortunately, moviegoers who feel compelled to test their First Amendment absolutism need...
Plus, Cantabrigians don't have to pore over airline prices to see if they can make it home for Thanksgiving...
...said that because the plaster she used several weeks ago was not sensitive enough, she switched to gelatin, which "gets every pore and follicle...
...Forbes attacks on Dole are constant and withering. So Dole and his advisers pore over their nightly tracking polls, which for awhile showed Forbes gaining steadily, then slipping a bit as Dole's counterattack hit home, then rising once again. By Monday night, the eve of the speeches, Dole had dipped from the mid- to high 30s down to 30, but was flattening out there. Forbes, after some ups and downs, appeared to be leveling off at 18%, while Gramm, after a brief charge during which he briefly surpassed Forbes, held around...