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Lascivious and exploitative? Certainly. Creepy? Not for a minute. Like “Utopia, Limited” in general, Morris and Kimmey are always charming. It’s also hard to root against a pair who look so good in formal wear...
...time when we are making more money than ever before. While still not on a par with men's, women's salaries were 77% of men's in 2005, compared with 65% in 1985. These financial frenemies go on to suggest that our misguided habits are the root of this overblown "problem," discounting the economic forces that deflate women's earnings in the first place--things like unpaid family leave and wage stagnation for women-dominated occupations like home health aides and teachers. As Tamara Draut, author of Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30-Somethings Can't Get Ahead...
...Play is at the root of these songs, which often hinted that they were about something more ribald than their putative topic. "The Fuddy Duddy Watchmaker": "Well I don't know how he does it but he does it!"A song from Red, Hot and Blue, "I Wake up in the Morning Feeling Fine," has Betty in a post-coital afterglow: "It must be cause you kiss me good ev'ry night." (Yes... kiss...
Hypocrisy is at the root of the sad situation on the political right, and Ronald Reagan started it [March 26]. He said the right things in a most seductive manner. Despite his talk of small government and fiscal responsibility, the federal bureaucracy and the national debt both grew tremendously under his guidance. Politicians say whatever the audience wants to hear, even if their words are completely divorced from reality. Whether discussing budget forecasts, civil liberties, the environment or reasons for war and the readiness of troops, they are just uttering patriotic-sounding lies. Rodney Hoffman, LOS ANGELES...
...prohibits deported foreigners guilty of crimes from returning to France for five years," notes Rochefort - who also thinks the sudden roundup was politically motivated. "He's trying to seduce voters from the extreme right with his anti-immigrant message, and this was supposed to show them, ?See, I even root them out in little remote rural towns of Brittany...