Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...criminal are natural enemies. Keats believes Moses put a bullet in his head; Moses thinks Keats betrayed him for the sake of a cheap bust. But as they drive around the desert, dodging machine-gun fire and stepping into plotholes of delirious implausibility, the two men get into tough-guy bonding at its wettest. Moses has no girlfriend, and Keats' has an ulterior agenda. After a while the standard gross-out talk of action movies--the gay-baiting gags and threats of fellatio--makes for an odd subtext. All these swaggering men who say they hate each other are really...
...Bush's 1988 "Read my lips, no new taxes" pledge earned him the White House. Clinton's 1992 offering of a middle-class tax break all but assured his victory. Dole's promise of a 15% tax cut is unachievable. Its only purpose is to garner votes. For the sake of American politics, let's hope that this ploy doesn't work. RAJU GOYAL Phoenix, Arizona Via E-mail...
...affecting hours!), incandescent stars (a ragged but potent revival of Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman with Paul Scofield and Vanessa Redgrave), one thrilling biodrama (Pam Gems' Stanley, on English painter Stanley Spencer) and lots of musicals about dead pop singers (Buddy, Elvis and, for Pete's sake, Jolson...
...firmly believe that the First Amendment's guarantee of separation of church and state must be maintained at all costs. Although the presence of "In G-d we trust" on American currency does not offend my personal religious sensibilities, I would understand completely if it were removed for the sake of Constitutional principles. Nor would I mind if "under G-d" were eliminated from the Pledge of Allegiance. How can such bleeding heart liberalism be reconciled with saying the Lord's prayer every day in homerooms across America...
Scalia's siege mentality was manifest in his speech this spring at a Mississippi prayer breakfast. "We are fools for Christ's sake...We must pray for the courage to endure the scorn of the sophisticated world," he declared, explaining that in educated circles Christians are regarded as "simpleminded." The speech echoed one he gave last year at Princeton University, where he maintained that his views on the proper role of judges were regarded as "simpleminded" in "sophisticated circles...