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...routine dealings. The Soviet government officially dismissed the U.S. charges as "absurd" and "outrageous." At a White House briefing in Los Angeles, Spokesman Larry Speakes suggested that the Kremlin's leaders, including Gorbachev, may not have known about the spy dust. There was more than a hint of a taunt in his remarks, however, as he noted that the Soviet military and KGB sometimes act as if they were under no one's control...
...mixed feelings. I have a lot of feelings of love and warmth for her but sometimes I think I tortured her. I think little kids do that to people who are really good to them. They can't believe they're not getting yelled at or something so they taunt you. I really taunted my mother. I remember also I knew she was sick for a long time with breast cancer, so she was very weak, but she would continue to go on and do the things she had to do. I knew she was very fragile and kept getting...
...shrewdly campaigning under a "Reagan-Ashe" banner. His opponent is far less comfortable with a "Mondale-Gore" tag. Ashe pressed his rival on this point during a televised debate by offering him $5 merely to mention the Democratic presidential candidate by name on the air. Nonplussed, Gore ducked the taunt. But his lead, though still strong, has narrowed to some 20 points...
They call their guests boobs and liars and taunt callers to "get off the phone, you jerk." They shout, hang up and cut people off in midsentence. They sound off pugnaciously on politics and make brash forays into sex. Among their most frequent targets are homosexuals, women, and ethnic and racial minorities. When challenged, they are apt to say things like, "You come down here, boy, you yellow-bellied, egg-sucking dog, bedwetter, pinko Commie " They are the abrasive breed of radio and television personalities, most of them talk-show hosts, who treat their profession as a verbal adjunct...
Most rockers, male or female, play a coy game of footsie under the table with fate. Hynde stomps right on its toes. When she gets kicked back, she writes a song that is part taunt, part testament and part a perpetual reappraisal of the price paid for defiance. This keen balancing act between distance and immediacy is probably what saved Hynde when the going got tough a few years back...