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...differences reconciled. Leaders of the Democratic-controlled House have instructed their conferees to demand that all money for the contras be stricken from the bill, and they will have some Republican support. The mining, says Silvio Conte of Massachusetts, ranking G.O.R member on the House Appropriations Committee, is a "stupid, stupid thing." On the more general subject of aid to the contras, he vows, "They're not going to get a nickel, not a nickel...
...most significant display, the first black presidential candidate (or the first with a serious following), King's disciple, Jesse Jackson, sits side by side in debate with the two white Senators running for the Democratic nomination. Whatever errors he has made elsewhere in the campaign (stupid, private references to Jews as "Hymie," his close relationship to a poisonous character who heads the Nation of Islam), Jackson has sometimes sounded in the debates like the only grownup in the race. In any case, the spectacle of a young black man treated equally with two whites in a fight...
...down the corduroy road from the high ground and the village padded the stooped and broken father of a boy of this age. Atencio said the bandannaed figure, a former governor, had a wild son who had destroyed his father's truck in a stupid wreck. The son had since run away, taking with him some of his father's most prized possessions. "Look at him," Atencio said pityingly. "He has to walk...
Reporters promptly cornered the mayor, who proved no fan of the state liquor authority crackdown. "It's archaic, it's arcane, it's stupid," Koch fumed. "It'll raise the price of dinner. You like to get a little bargain now and then. I mean, that's what life is all about." Koch suggested that the SLA suspend its directive...
UNFORTUNATELY THERE JUST AREN'T enough moments in Android where the humor comes to the surface. This sort of parody would work much better or an outrageous level--as in Airplane, where things are so stupid, you have to laugh at them. Android instead comes across as an overblown premiere of a sci-fi television show, whipped up just in time for fall previews, with silly cardboard sets, silly stock characters, and lots of pointless footage...