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...mentor, Lenny Bruce) had poked fun at these subjects, but none with as sharp an eye or as much performing brio. Carlin's unctuous radio deejays, TV newscasters and commercial pitchmen were not simple parodies; he used them to satirize a whole society that had its priorities out of whack. "The sun did not come up this morning, huge cracks have appeared in the earth's surface, and big rocks are falling out of the sky," a Carlin newsman once announced. "Details 25 minutes from now on Action Central News...
...more likely to engage citizens in the political process. Women also score better on the issues that cut close to home, among them welfare, health care and education. When it comes to the electorate's No. 1 concern -- the economy -- voters seem inclined to let women take a whack at the mess. "There's a feeling we should give women a chance," says Douglas Muzzio, a political scientist at New York City's Baruch College. "They can't do much worse than the men." Certainly voters seem very receptive to the idea of women in high office. In a Times...
...student says something that he finds insulting, does he threaten to whack them upside the head with a two-by-four to teach them the error of their ways...
Clinton went after Tsongas by airing a new spot in Colorado, Georgia and Maryland that paints the ex-Senator as a Wall Street pawn. Of the dozen Clinton ads shown this year, the whack at Tsongas is the only one in which Clinton is barely seen and is heard not at all; an anonymous announcer does the kneecapping. Most of the other Clinton commercials mirror his candidacy -- smooth, warm, persuasive, calculated with an insider's finesse to play on the public's anger at insiders...
Every week seems to bring a new spate of plans for reducing defense spending. While the Bush Administration would reportedly whack $50 billion out of a $1.89 trillion five-year military budget, some leading Democrats want to slash as much as $150 billion. Not to be outdone, the Pentagon has been tinkering with a cost-saving plan to finance the research and development of new weapons without actually buying them -- an idea that horrifies the defense industry...