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...reels on the gas pumps spin so fast these days that it's become almost impossible to stop them on an even dollar figure. I hate it when a mosquito buzzes my ear. I flick it away and then look back at the pump--which I was monitoring fiercely until that moment--and see the colossal, untidy sum: $40.03. Luckily, most service stations now have LEAVE A PENNY, TAKE A PENNY dishes that are meant to help customers who come up short, but sadly there's often nothing in them because so many other people share my problem. What...
...songs over the years (the Village People's Y.M.C.A., Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax, the Queen catalog). You can interpret this as the gradual acceptance of gay culture or as the mainstream's enduring obliviousness to it. (The Village People did not drop by the YMCA to pump iron.) Now here's a song about coming out to Mom by a group named after a lesbian sex act. You'd think only Liza Minnelli could mistake them for straight. But Take Your Mama also happens to be the most complete pop tune of the summer, with a jaunty piano...
...perhaps we can strike a middle ground—it’s not porn, and it’s not art. Rather, it’s a $9,000 excursion into the pump-priming of professional photographers, printers and legal counsel...
With gas prices at the pump now exceeding two dollars in most states, the finger pointing has begun on both sides of the aisle to determine who is responsible for oil supply problems. Unfortunately, supply is not the major cause of these price rises. Runaway economic growth in China and India is, and it has been for some time now as the two Asian giants continue to modernize their economies. Short of trying to derail economic growth in the world’s two most populous nations, there is very little the United States government can do to stop worldwide...
Russert's writing stays right on the ground where his pop would like it. He's reluctant to pump in too much psychological analysis, although he gives in to occasional bouts of didacticism. The book, like the show, is best when the writer gets out of the way of the story. When young Timmy breaks a neighbor's window, what's poignant is not so much that his father makes him fess up as that Big Russ wraps the broken glass neatly in a shoe box so that "the guys" hauling it away won't cut themselves. --By John...