Word: wrenchingly
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...until he reluctantly agreed to endorse the Clinton ticket. Mario Cuomo, who for months had sniped at Clinton from the sidelines, preached some old-time Democratic religion while blessing a ticket with postliberal views on welfare (too generous) and government spending (ditto). Even Jerry Brown couldn't throw a wrench into the works, though he and his cantankerous supporters tried. When he finally spoke on Wednesday night, his sulfurous podium performance included no endorsement of his party's ticket. Maybe it was resentful party regulars who arranged to have Brown leave the stage to the music of a Sousa march...
INEVER REALLY was that interested in the final club scene. Still, that scene was never interested in me--a fact which threw a wrench in my grand scheme of self-righ-teousness...
Crazy for You has several moments when characters might wrench out their feelings. But in the leading roles of a playboy who just wants to sing and dance, and a small-town gal who just wants to honor her dad, Harry Groener is all tinny energy and Jodi Benson is all hollow spunk, so even the big ballads don't pay off. He dances and sings just well enough to remind one of the greats without rivaling them. She is so amplified vocally that she sounds as though she were in a recording studio. The real blame belongs with...
...doesn't mean the worker will work harder. It means fewer pieces to put together, fewer steps to put it together, fewer turns on the wrench. And doing more in design so we do less in assembly...
...next night at the Kennedy School, I began to understand his point: to wrench political influence from lobbyists and big-money campaign contributors and return it to the populace at large. "How many of you in this room have never given $1000 to a candidate?" he asked, and the question drove his point home. (For those of you who are interested, the number--which "so terrorizes the establishment...