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This year Xmas is going to be on the mailman. During the entire holiday stampede, we do not intend to stick one toe out of the house to buy anything. (Well, maybe the odd beaker of Beefeater, says Father.) Has doddering senility finally overtaken your parents? By no means. We have, rather, been enveloped by Efficiency, Luxury and Modernity. We have succumbed to the Mail-Order Catalogue, which in our youth was something that farmers used...
...congressional seats for 16 years. Now she's been thrown into chem 20 with Rep Barney Frank (D-Mass.)and has responded in stereotypical pre-med fashion. Her wild campaign and accusing Frank of favoring prostitution drug use, and desecration of the flag are in the grand tradition of beaker smashing and lab report stealing. You may laugh, but Heckler has pulled even in the polls...
...famous." He collects many of his Muppet pals along the way-Fozzie, the apologetic bear: Gonzo, the not quite turkey; Miss Piggy, the karate queen in the lavender gloves; Dr. Teeth and his Electric Mayhem band; Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, the melon-brained mad scientist, and his twittering assistant Beaker. A human villain tries to kidnap Kermit to shill for his chain of French-fried frogs' legs restaurants. When things look black, Kermit says in despair, "All I can think of is millions of frogs on tiny crutches." As is true with the TV show, human actors have no trouble...
...told every brush with the great and the near great supposedly has its poignant moments, proving that they are just folks after all. My experience seemed notably lacking, though there was one that might qualify. While á deux with Mrs. Taylor-Burton and a beaker of champagne, she remarked that Richard often considered returning to Oxford to become a simple don. This was said with great sincerity and a straight face. Which-since the lady was at the time wearing a stupefying wig made from the scalps of at least nine healthy Italians and a frock costing upwards...
...South Dakota could feel that I should go. But I haven't been in South Dakota. I have been in Los Angeles and Honolulu and San Francisco, and I feel a different mood. Politics isn't a science like physics, where you put things in a beaker and measure them. What makes or breaks a politician is how he perceives the public pulse, the public mood. I'm confident as I can be that the public is with me. I'm not living in a dreamworld. I know the stakes are high, but I firmly believe...