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...rich in snobbish pretense, met Barry when they were students at Radcliffe and Harvard. She saw in him the perfect Kentucky gentleman who could make her dreams of genteel grandeur come true. "Like Barry," Brenner writes, "she . . . had grown up with the same hard lessons of vanquished pride, the specter of Civil War memorials, geriatric veterans invited for Sunday dinner, and the endless parades of cripples . . . celebrating another battle of the Lost Cause...
...know-how to produce an era of unprecedented prosperity with peace. "It is not apocalypse now," he insists. If the deficits shrink more and there is no recession ("I see nothing out there to indicate that the economy is not going to keep growing"), then expansion could diminish that specter of a $2.4 trillion debt making hostages of young Americans. Banishing fear is the heart of politics...
Just as troublesome to travelers is the specter of the Internal Revenue Service going after frequent-flyer programs. The IRS is studying the possibility of taxing free airline tickets as income. While a ruling is not expected before next year, passengers who have stashed away substantial mileage are understandably concerned and may use their bonuses soon. The airlines, on the other hand, have a reason to welcome IRS intervention. If imposing taxes on the bonuses cuts down on their use, then the frequent-flyer plans would no longer be such a dire threat to the carriers' bottom lines...
...required to continue business would be lacking. Byrd retaliated by ordering the sergeant at arms to corral any Republicans he could find. While Packwood took his arrest with good humor, he complained, "We work on comity around here. You can't do business on brute force." Republican Arlen Specter of Pennyslvania charged excitedly that the seizure of Senators "smacks of Nazi Germany and Communist Russia...
What the movie folks have noticed is a grim specter haunting all of yuppiedom. No matter how furiously they pedal their Exercycles, no matter how earnestly they chomp through their radicchio or how desperately they try to drown their anxieties in wine coolers, the yups cannot escape this terrible fact: procreation is the enemy of recreation. Not to mention carefree getting and spending. Recently we have seen one mini-hit (Baby Boom) and one maxi-hit (3 Men and a Baby) offering implausibly sentimental reassurances that there is life after surrogate parenthood. Now comes that prolific chronicler of youthful crises...