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...therefore need not stoop to Tommy's. Beer aside for a moment, we desire pizza on all days of the week, whether we are making our way back from Lamont or rehearsal. And miraculously, Tommy's is busy every night until closing at three a.m. No self-respecting sober person frequents the Tasty, and Store 24's offerings are limited to Hostess cupcakes and Doritos. So we flock to a rat-hole where the workers make the pizza, handle your money and smoke cigarettes all at the same time...
...attempt to "take Russia out of Europe, isolate Russia, for which European nations will pay very dearly." The counter-offensive: to strengthen ties with CIS neighbors such as Ukraine and Kazakhstan and Belarus. A man infamous for his extravagant p romises, Yeltsin wisely made few in a sober and sobering 24-minute address. One, to pay all pensions owed by June 3, actually drew some smiles from Duma members. Other skepticism was not so thinly disguised. Afterward, Communist Party leader Genna dy Zyuganov called the performance "miserable, helpless, buffoonery without any real content behind it. I would like to hear...
Movies, however, are called "Sling Blade" for a reason, and that reason is Doyle (Dwight Yoakam, sans cowboy hat), Linda's construction-worker boyfriend. Doyle, the trashiest of trash, is goading and just generally pissed when sober, but dangerous and violent when drunk--which, sadly for Linda and Frank, is pretty much all the time...
During the State of the Union speech this week, television viewers will see a familiar Capitol Hill tableau: a sober-faced Newt Gingrich sitting behind Bill Clinton. But the more intriguing and unfamiliar pairing will be up in the balcony, where Gingrich's wife Marianne will be sitting with country star Travis Tritt, Joan Shalikashvili, wife of the general, and...Jesse Jackson. Last week Newt extended an invitation to his ideological opposite to sit in the Gingrich family box in the Speaker's gallery, and it was accepted. The unlikely twosome have been communing since Gingrich's opening-day speech...
...tallying the putdowns and comebacks. Hand-held, it wavers gently during a love scene, in accordance with the tenderness of the moment. It also plunges through fields and over water for a flight to the countryside. Or it remains breathlessly still and grave for a duel, one of the sober possible endings to this game...