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...passionate connection with Elsie while maintaining his marriage and giving no pain to his patient, long-suffering wife? Answers eventually arrive, but not before some spirited narrative interludes: vivid scenes of hunting and "sticking" swordfish on the high seas, a sexual encounter that turns into an extended bout of mud wrestling, a hair-raising attempt to outsail a major hurricane...
...sound track naturally resounds with the orgasmic hammering of the Lewis beat, wails with the simple, not to say crude, sexual metaphors of his lyrics. Dennis Quaid very successfully re-creates his dervish-like stage presence (he made Elvis' pelvis look as if it were stuck in the mud) in a portrayal that goes over the top in nicely calculated measure. And Winona Ryder contributes a hypnotically enigmatic performance -- articulate innocence and inarticulate knowingness all mixed up -- as the singer's nymphet bride. All these authenticities fitfully but forcefully remind us that back in the enervated '50s, there were certain...
Democrats like Beryl Anthony of Arkansas contend that this is another episode in the "bad employee-good superior" political mud wrestling that Atwater perfected during the campaign. Staffers, encouraged by their bosses, go on the attack, then -- like a corps of civilian Ollie Norths -- take the blame and are publicly rebuked. The superiors apologize...
...sacred cows, O'Rourke lives on a diet of hamburger. He considers it bad form to criticize one society when, with very little effort, two can be skewered: "The same polite behavior that makes you a welcome guest in the drawing rooms of Kensington is equally appropriate among the Mud People of the fierce Orokaiva tribe of Papua New Guinea -- if you have a gun." Closer to home, he examines every appalling aspect of modern life. Under the heading of "Rebuffs," he notes that "at one time the 'cut direct' was delivered by looking right at a person...
...doors blown open," Co-Captain Doug Lifford said. "They rubbed our faces in mud. I hope we get something positive out of it. It was not a good day in Harvard squash...