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...GRAND BATTLE OF THE Yitzhaks: a robust election campaign pitting Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir against the toughest foe he has faced -- the former and newly returned head of the Labor Party, Yitzhak Rabin. Instead, the fight has shriveled into what the Jerusalem Post last week called "the Longest Yawn." Voters are so overcome with ennui that the major parties are canceling campaign events for lack of attendance. Posters and banners can hardly be seen in the streets. And Shamir's Likud is moaning that the Venezuelan soap opera Crystal is drawing the party's natural constituency away from...
...sadly, Mythical Beasts is just another sneaky coloring book whose purpose is to get kids to (yawn) learn. It offers a bibliography, for Pete's sake. And some of the literary allusions are a little bit esoteric for the ordinary five-year-old monster fan. Five-year-olds are made to feel like losers if they don't remember that the Hippogriff was, of course, the animal that Ruggiero rode in Ariosto's epic, "Orlando Furioso...
...during the President's State of the Union address. By most accounts, Bush believes the best economic policy is to leave matters alone. But he sees that course as politically untenable, and so larded his speech with a series of halfhearted palliatives that most voters have greeted with a yawn. Better again for him to have told the truth as he saw it -- better for the economy, perhaps; better for his electoral prospects, certainly...
Most students won't pay much attention to the bureaucratic manipulations that will consume most of the provost's time. Budget cuts, deferred maintenance costs, a declining endowment. Yawn...
...more last minute passion, no impromptu rendez-vous. Before you know it, your romance has dwindled into a yawn-inducing monotony of phone calls between Centrex phones...