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...Elvis Costello is an extraordinarily detailed delineation of the twists and turns of a single tortured, adolescent mind. It's not us, but it's not that far removed; you may feel it next time you masturbate. In "High Fidelity," Elvis gives us, for once, a moral afterthought, a vicious vision of silliness; two people cheating on each other, bugged by each other, hating each other, communicating foggily through the airwaves...
...Western journalists rarely face. Many stories must be approved by government and military officials before publication. "With everyone in the business trying to do the same thing, this is incredibly time-consuming. Sometimes we just take chances and report the stuff," Klaaste says. Those who break the laws face vicious fines and imprisonment...
...entitlement programs, which not only swallow 77% of the whole budget but are inexorably rising. That is because most of them are tied to the consumer price index. Social Security benefits, for example, will rise 13% this year because the CPI rose 13% in 1979. That creates a vicious circle: inflation increases federal spending, which increases deficits, which increases inflation. Several experts have proposed limiting the tie between prices and benefits to 85% of any rise in the CPI, but Carter apparently will not ask even for token cuts in the entitlement programs...
...party on the stage of a nightclub. The specter of Nazism looms over Berlin, transforming the frantic pursuit of pleasure in the cabaret from an escape into a form of participation in the new cause. As Cabaret progresses, the interspersed dance numbers lose their decadent innocence and turn into vicious political diatribes...
...that his cook lost two members of his family in shooting incidents. A friend of his lost a close relative and saw an uncle wounded. Nearly everyone also has kin in either the police or army. Many of the injured in the old bazaar, where some of the most vicious fighting went on, literally bled to death from leg wounds; their Afghan soldier brothers had aimed low in order to maim rather than kill. In the northwest part of the city, a group of protesters wielding sticks and captured guns marched on the Kharga military barracks and urged the Afghan...