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...Florida's Democratic Senator Lawton Chiles acknowledges that "we always seem to come up with a new slogan to patch over gaps in our willpower." And looking ahead to the dangers that Gramm-Rudman may bring, Wisconsin's Republican Senator Rudy Boschwitz says, "It is perhaps a little mindless, but it may be the only way out of the morass." All of which is another way of asking, If Gramm-Rudman is too arbitrary, what is going to get the Government off the road to bankruptcy? Oysters, anyone...
...Strategies of Lying," Umberto Eco performs a structural operation to demonstrate how Nixon's image-making speeches were variations on the same mythic elements composing Little Red Riding Hood. Michel de Certeau's "The Jabbering, of Social Life" reduces politics to a social organ polluting the environment with mindless dogma. The heralding of the Reagan Age is also blamed on a carefully-devised strategy of ignorance that is not without its humor...
Veteran doormen have seen thousands of real and fake IDs. The worst fakes, they say, reflect basic amateurism, mindless mistakes or simple stupidity...
Incidentally, Dolby and the Clinton crew combine on a 12-incher entitled MAY THE CUBE BE WITH YOU, from Dolby's upcoming Brit-funk LP. The song reminds us that Dolby's mindless career since "Blinded Me With Science" can still be salvaged. He just took the wrong road when it diverged in the ol' yellow wood...
...Rule." By striving to cut imports from countries thought to discriminate against U.S. products, says the Maine Republican, "we intend to do unto others what they do unto us." To President Reagan, however, the anti-import rumblings are sounds not of piety but of recklessness, the beginning of "a mindless stampede toward . . . economic disaster," as he put it at his news conference last week...