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...alliance candidate had won a stunning victory, taking 40% of the vote, vs. 30.5% for the Conservatives and 26% for Labor. "We have split the old party system wide open and shown there is a real alternative," insisted William Pitt, the victorious Liberal candidate. Pitt (no kin to the 18th century Prime Minister) had lost in the constituency three times before. With his triumph, declared S.D.P. Leader Shirley Williams, "we have broken the credibility barrier...
Baby Love sneers. He stands up. "I'm goin' get all I wants," he says, "and I don' care if I gotta steal to get it. I'm not afraid of doin' time so long as I kin do it fast." Then he goes up to the clubhouse with Daddy Rich. He lies on a mattress puffing on an El Productocigar hollowed out and filled with chiba chiba. There is a bottle of 150-proof Bacardi rum by his side. The cassette player throbs and, for a moment, Baby Love is warm and secure...
...Ehrlichs should have spent more time developing this theme of the esthetics of life for our kin. Photos of extinct species, like the once-most numerous bird, the passenger pigeon, and of others now vanishing would appeal to the altruistic feelings of the reader. Yet the written examples create remarkable images and inspire compassion. Too bad James G. Watt will probably never see them...
...well-wisher flutters up, and Helms remembers. "What kin are you to R.L.?" he asks...
...simply because of what transpired. The country wanted a tax cut, and on Ronald Reagan's terms. It got it--democracy in action. But what hurt was that the Democrats came to this wake too, and they showed little respect for the dead, who, after all, were their kin...