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...Soak a Massachusetts license in lighter fluid for 10 minutes and peel back the lamination," he says...
...week's biggest losers. Elected by a landslide two years ago, the tough-talking Democrat won praise for his willingness to use political capital to eliminate a $600 million budget deficit and introduce $2.8 billion in new state and income taxes. Florio believed increased spending on education and a soak-the-rich progressive tax structure would appeal to the middle class. Instead, outraged voters rejected his program...
Among those paying no heed are the other Democratic candidates, most noisily Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, whose old-time Democratic religion is based on a "soak the rich" populism that may go down well in party primaries but isn't likely to prevail in a general election. In declaring his candidacy last week, Nebraska Senator Bob Kerrey spoke grandly of "investing in our nation, spurring its growth and corralling the deficit." Their reach seemed faintly reminiscent of Ronald Reagan's 1980 vow to lower taxes, boost defense and reduce the deficit -- all at the same time...
...going to be hearing a lot about Barton Fink in the next few weeks. Gnomic, claustrophobic, hallucinatory, just plain weird, it is the kind of movie critics can soak up thousands of words analyzing and cinephiles can soak up at least three espressos arguing their way through...
...different national forest, there peaceably to assemble. And peaceably to shake free of the plastic society, hug each other, wear feathers, wear safety pins through their eyelids (as a few metal-head teenagers do), dance all night, smoke pot (some of them), jiggle around nude (some of them), soak themselves with beer (a troublesome minority), rant or chant or quietly meditate...