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...which the House was supposed to debate tax reform. The White House and Democratic chiefs wanted to hold a simple up-or-down vote on the Rostenkowski bill, as well as on a Republican alternative that was given no chance of passage. At a G.O.P. strategy session, however, Whip Trent Lott of Mississippi urged, "Let's kill this snake before it gets out of the hole." On the House floor, Republicans moved to do just that by insisting that they be given the chance to vote on amendments. They were all for tax reform, they disingenuously avowed; they simply wanted...
DECKED OUT in a brown beehive, several inches of Maybelline Moisture Whip mascara and a baby-blue satin Rhinestone cowgirl outfit, country and western hopeful Patsy Cline (Jessica Lange) gazes out into the audience of the proverbial roadhouse-on-the-way-to-no-where and beings to croon, "I'm crazy, crazy for being soooo lonelyyyy." A star is born. The face of country music and the world has been changed forever. Or so Sweet Dreams, Director Karol Reisz's new film chronicling the ups and downs of Patsy Cline, country music's pre-Loretta Lynn sweetheart, would have...
...reasonable not to make crude jokes," says Rosenblum. But he added: "we can do funny things without anyone wielding a whip of any sort over...
Funny thing, a hurricane. Winds whip at gale force. Massachusetts shuts down and prepares for the worst. And at Harvard, Gloria is cause for celebration. For the first time since the blizzard of 1978, and only the third this century, the University closed its doors. And the student body, well, it responded in good form...
...punishment for transgressions against his order. Thus the disease partakes, so to speak, of the prestige of the infinite. AIDS becomes a dramatically targeted refinement of the doctrine that all disease is a form of God's retribution upon fallen and sinful man. "Sickness is in fact the whip of God for the sins of many," said Cotton Mather. AIDS renews in many minds, sometimes in an almost unconscious way, questions of the problem of sin: Is there sin? Against whom? Against what? Is sex sometimes a sin? Why? And what kind...