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adoption" -- but not with the cash that might keep mother and child together. Orphanages were not the subject of Gingrich's speech, but they were not a throwaway either. The notion reappeared in the Republican welfare-reform bill (with the inflammatory word orphanages changed to "children's homes"), which is a basis for Gingrich's famous "Contract with America...
...look at "the lighter side" of overpopulation, famine, ecological disaster and other global environmental woes, the reader begins to wonder whether somewhere between writing Republican Party Reptile and this latest effort the author suffered a stroke. Left intact are O'Rourke's accustomed descriptive flair and facility for throwaway lines -- " 'dying like flies' is not a simile you'd use in Somalia. The flies wax prosperous and lead full lives." Gone, however, is any faculty for building an argument...
Like a lot of Young's other recordings, Sleeps with Angels combines reverie and disillusion in equal measure. A feisty, scruffy throwaway like Piece of Crap, an assault on environmental hypocrisy, shows that Young passed along more than a taste for worn plaid shirts to those upstarts in Seattle. (The current generation of rock musicians considers Young something of a godfather.) The tune has a snarling, implacable drive and guitar work that can make your back fillings vibrate...
Despite his candor, Evans leaves out some intriguing material. There's no mention of his friend Heidi Fleiss, for example, and he makes just a throwaway reference to his role in a stock scheme that allegedly scammed millions from investors. Even the Cotton Club murder gets short shrift; it's dispensed with in 14 pages. Still, Evans demonstrates that despite his years in Hollywood, he has the right values: he devotes a mere four pages to his tennis game...
Every scene has a rich period look without diminishing the threadbare tawdriness in which Rose and her touring children are forced to live. The cast is a nice mix of high-profile TV faces (Ed Asner and Evening Shade's Michael Jeterin throwaway cameos) and theater veterans (Christine Ebersole as the heart-of-gold stripper Tessie Tura and Anna McNeely reprising her Broadway turn as the rival ecdysiast Miss Electra...