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...last week similar to ones he criticized Bush for making when the patrician Texan was trying to save his presidency. The G.O.P. enjoyed the show. Said Haley Barbour, the chairman of the Republican Party: "President Clinton shares with the hummingbird the amazing ability to turn 180 degrees in a wink...
...overseas client to pay a share of a weapon's development. Sweden was willing to pay $300,000 apiece for the U.S. AMRAAM air-to-air missile. However, it balked at the additional $100,000-a-copy development premium for any weapon purchased through the Pentagon. So, with a wink from the Administration, Sweden will buy the missile directly from the manufacturer -- and avoid a contribution to U.S. tax coffers. Meanwhile, the Administration's stepped-up arms sales rack up $1 million a day for everything from the salaries of Pentagon accountants to charges for shipping displays to overseas weapons...
...attendant shepherds and fops have a whirly, burly charm, and the bucolic maids (notably William Cates' Phebe) suggest Benny Hill on his very best night. But even these performances are never mired in the wink-wink-nudge- nudge of condescension to either Shakespeare or the audience. As Donnellan and Ormerod proved in their version of Angels in America at the National Theatre, no play is so weighted down by metaphor or message that it cannot be made to sing and soar...
...frequent use of ASCII art is the smiley faces that often appear in e-mail messages. Some popular faces are,: "smile,": ("frown", and;) "wink...
...spontaneous wink he gives at the end of thespot has received particularly rave reviews, hesaid...