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...violence per se, and perhaps indicating a desire to take revenge on some threatening situation, if not the one that might have been uppermost in people's minds. Fictional heroes of the period may have offered similar distractions, functioning as little "bombs" in their own right. McMurphy of Ken Kesey's novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and Yossarian of Joseph Heller's Catch-22 were at war with the world, and both nuked the societies that sought to contain them. One took on the scientists, the other the military: a one-two punch for the common...
Meals have often been on trays in the study. No spicy food is on the menu for the time being. The other night the Reagans watched a video reel given to them by a Hollywood veteran and friend, Ken Murray. The scenes were from his home movies collected over decades and showed the greats, like Mary Pickford, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable at play...
...sorts of fund-raising literature, Schiavo is a symbol not just for those fighting the right-to-die movement but also in the battle over abortion, stem-cell research and judicial activism. "We're replacing the sanctity of life with the quality of life in this country," laments Ken Connor, Florida Governor Jeb Bush's counsel in the Schiavo case...
Take Wally Kozak’s comments in a March 11 Toronto Star article, “Not Good Enough, Eh?” by Ken Campbell. Kozak, Team Canada’s head scout, criticizes Corriero’s skating abilities, saying, “she would have to literally learn to skate” in order to be considered by the team...
...pathetic attempt at porn that savvy Europeans would mock), also brought us Nipplegate at last year’s Superbowl (they’d mock that too). The same culture that prosecuted a president for his sexual affairs printed the details of those affairs in public, making Ken Starr seem as pervy as he is prudish. And the same culture that refuses to give us proper sex education or insurance to cover the Pill gives us the constant threat of an abortion ban. I think we’d prefer something in between...