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...begrudgingly still aspires to. Elsewhere, Texans have been known to agree to meet at "dark-30" or "half-past dawn." Dallas people meet according to the clock. Elsewhere in Texas, the beautiful are "pretty as a speckled pup under a red wagon," and the plain are "ugly as homemade sin." Dallas prefers straightforward adjectives: gorgeous, beautiful, attractive, interesting looking...
Lobbyists swarmed around the bill and exerted pressure that led to contradictory results in the case of so-called sin taxes. Taxes on distilled liquor will rise by 340 on an 86-proof fifth, but cigarette taxes will be cut in half, to 80 a pack, as previously scheduled. House tax writers had sought a smaller reduction, but they lost out to a tobacco lobby that was strongly seconded by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, who is running for re-election to the Senate. Securities firms won a big break for investors. For the next two years they can sell...
More valuable than any of this is her rich, sure, rock-solid sense of inadequacy. No writer should be without it. Bombeck's brings her back to the typewriter, twitchy with remorse for the unspeakable sin of not measuring up, after only a few days of vacation. She writhes, and writes, and makes a rare sort of contact. "I swear to you, I don't write fiction," she says. Bill Bombeck and their endlessly libeled children swear she does. No matter; when the jokes splat on the page like strained spinach flung by somebody's centrifugal suburban...
...that many folks, became the focus of derision. None of Richard Nixon's political excesses kept him from crushing George McGovern in 1972. By the summer of 1973 the bulk of the Watergate crimes was beginning to crush him despite his stunning achievements in foreign policy. Every old sin, real and imagined, rose like a specter in the public revulsion. For Jimmy Carter it was about the time when interest rates and inflation were both hovering near 20%, the Soviets were machine-gunning their way around Afghanistan and American hostages were being held in Iran that...
...second assumption is that some workable definition of pornography can be found. The courts have had enormous difficulty trying to define what is and is not pornographic. In order to meet the criterion of specificity that the Supreme Court demands of a statute, the MacKinnon-Dworkin bill committed the sin of ridiculousness. Under the proposed ordinance, any work that portrays women "who are tied up or cut up or mutilated or bruised or physically hurt" or that shows women as "filthy or inferior" qualifies as pornography. Out goes A Clockwork Orange, Gone with the Wind, and almost every action film...