Word: shirkers
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...Dole's presidential campaigns, a GOP superstar was scheduled to appear in a splashy "turn things around" rally for Dole and make a surprise endorsement. The phone rang late the night before--the superstar was canceling the appearance, citing a "dental emergency." At least give that shirker points for creativity. Candidates know that national politics is a brutal Serengeti, and the animals that roam there have highly attuned survival instincts. When they start to flee, it is a sure warning of coming trouble...
...Mayor has 96 kids to whom he can devoted only 12 secs. each at breakfast time. After all those girls he had a son, JoJo, a silent, sulking lad in Goth attire. (In the original, and JoJo was unrelated to the main Whovian - just "a very small shirker" who performs a crucial role at the climax.) So the movie combines two kinds of parenting: literally, as the Mayor and JoJo find a project to bring them together, and figuratively, as Horton (a fine vocal job by Carrey) grandly represents the kindness of strangers...
...angry--at the Russian press--than worried. "I just wish they would report the truth," she told TIME. "Why are they picking on him? What kind of morals do our journalists have?" The space doctors, who give her regular reports, tell her Tsibliyev will be fine. He's no shirker, she says. "He's been a hard worker all his life. This speculation is all such nonsense...
...great operas: you could mount it in a barn or a basilica with equal success. It's such a hodge-podge of childish humor, didactic verses, and obscure allegory that no director's grand interpretation is likely to encompass its entirety. In his film version, Ingmar Bergman--no shirker from directorial complexity--paid tribute to the sufficiency of Mozart's music to bear The Magic Flute's inconsistencies; he presented a filmed record of a workmanlike, shoestring performance in a provincial opera house...
...typical meeting, a resident being scolded for failing to clean a sticky kitchen floor tried to change the subject, prompting a housemate to snap: "I think this is the way you treat your wife when she confronts you. No wonder you drive her crazy." Notes Martin: "It forced the shirker to realize he doesn't face issues squarely...