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Zhirinovsky had simple -- but often implausible -- answers for every challenging question. His publicized meeting with an Austrian Nazi, he said, was a "setup." His claim that Russian troops would someday wash their boots in the Indian Ocean meant only that chaos in Muslim countries would require Russian peacekeeping within 20 years. He glibly promised that within months of taking office, he would end homelessness, unemployment and crime...
...separate careers," says Saliers. "My greatest fear is that it'll end." Adds Ray: "My greatest fear is that Emily has a fear that it'll end." A few hours into the shoot for Least Complicated, the Girls are standing around in the darkened studio waiting for the next setup. In the lull, they begin softly to strum their guitars. One tune they play is Mystery, from the new CD. The last words to the song...
...There was a pattern of falsifications ofsecond mortgages," Richard V. Kelleher, who headsthe Dime Borrowers Association on Cape Cod, saidin an interview earlier this month. "The bank setup the whole scheme, but the bank walks offclean...
Dunster House Senior Tutor Henriette L. Powersays she has always felt the house system was setup "to fill the lack of advising in theconcentrations...
...this is a parodic setup for Mom's delirious trial and exploitation. It's a tatty freak show, and Waters loves it. "I'm a participant in everything I criticize," he insists. "My movies aren't about violence but about how America is so confused about fame." The confusion and fascination, he suggests, come from a public exhausted by their own mundane problems and eager to find release in someone else's. "Here's the reason people can laugh about it," he says. "I've had a long day, you've had a long day, other people have been fired...