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...water to snap their jaws around dead chickens suspended from a wire. For connoisseurs of arcane Americana, the Orlando area also offers an Alligatorland Safari Zoo (feed the animals with Purina Monkey Chow), a Reptile World Serpentarium ("Time your visit to be present during one of our three daily venom programs") and an Elvis Presley Museum, with displays of Elvis' high school yearbook (his major was shop), a portrait of Jesus that Elvis gave his parents when he was 15 and, for 50 cents, a photostat of the King's death certificate...
...John Killinger of Lynchburg's First Presbyterian Church, rose in the pulpit in 1981 and asked his parishioners whether they believed Jesus would ever have appeared on the Old Time Gospel Hour. It was a sharp rebuke from the right side of the tracks. Falwell struck back with typical venom, mispronouncing Killinger's name as Dillinger. Falwell's aggressive tone may have given some of his supporters violent ideas: Killinger and his family began getting death threats...
...novel. "It's bound to be maudlinly autobiographical," you reassure yourself. In fact, you are convinced it will take place in the hallways of your old school, it does nothing of the sort. It proves to be breathtaking--and by the 30th page you have even forgotten your envious venom...
...best part of the job. He recalled a bank president who had never cracked a joke, a man rarely given to laughter. After the Kushner treatment, the executive did not exactly become a barrel of monkeys, but he was able to cut loose with the odd one-liner. One venom-tongued supervisor, accustomed to dressing down tardy employees, now has the habit of saying, "So glad you could make it for lunch." The message is still clear, but it is not so much a brick...
...would have thought Prof Mansfield had rid himself of venom against affirmative action after his article in The National Reviewlast spring, where he exhibited his ignorance about American society when posing the following query: "How can (Blacks) be made into first-class citizens? But is it not evident that this question should be rephrased as. How can they make themselves into first-class citizens?" Now any serious student of American racist patterns and Afro-American life could tell Mansfield that Blacks have never lacked the will--yes, that rugged individualistic will that New Right analysts cherish so much...