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...ideological gulf which separated Hill and Thomas and her perception that he did not respond to her subtle advances combined to feed her resentment and sow the seeds of her revenge scheme...
...pigs were eating a rattlesnake . . ." You can't stop reading there. ". . . not a very big one. It had probably just been crawling around looking for shade when it ran into the pigs. They were having a fine tug-of-war with it, and its rattling days were over. The sow had it by the neck, and the shoat had the tail. 'You pigs git,' Augustus said, kicking the shoat. 'Head on down to the creek if you want to eat that snake.' It was the porch he begrudged them, not the snake...
...fundamentally fueled by the cold war," says Phillips, "and you can almost date the diminution of that terrorism with Gorbachev's ascension to power." But the end of communism has $ helped ignite the fires of nationalism in regions like the Balkans, emboldening other fanatical groups to sow the kind of trouble once created by Soviet and East bloc terrorists...
...press, and even by some prominent Republicans, Bush promptly backed off his unsubstantiated criticisms of the Moscow trip. But he redoubled his attacks on the Democrat's antiwar record. Coming on the eve of the crucial first debate, the apparent aim of the Bush strategy was to sow new doubts about Clinton's trustworthiness and rattle the Democrat into making fresh gaffes. But the ploy, smacking as it does of dirty tricks, could well backfire. "This kind of attack makes Bush look more strident and less presidential," says Ed Rollins, a former Republican strategist. "Unless Bush does something that suddenly...
...main reason for the book's success is the resonance of the questions Faludi raises. Were all the movies and television shows and advertisements that featured blissful mothers and frazzled career women intended, either consciously or subconsciously, to sow doubts in women's minds about their real goals? Or, as her critics counter, did the mass media merely pick up on concerns that already existed and touch a nerve that had been rubbed raw by a generation of out-of-touch feminist leaders...