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...irrelevant riders and enmeshed in heated controversy. Among the big stumbling blocks this year was the House vote to cut off U.S. aid to the contra guerrillas battling the Sandinista government of Nicaragua, while the Senate insisted on continuing to fund the contras. Also the House voted to authorize pork-barrel water projects that eventually might cost $18 billion; the Senate, sensitive to a threat of presidential veto, refused...
...echo to pagan rites; Old World myths are superimposed on the present. There are elegiac hallucinations of the past and an up-to-date orgy, a perky sketch of a bare female torso, and batty headlines, such as PIGS ARE WHERE YOU FIND THEM, OUTLAW DECIDES: SOUL IS A PORK CHOP, HE DISCOVERS...
...different (sites, including Olympic Villages, places for the Games, training facilities, parking lots. That is, if the cars can get there. Gridlock city, eh? No! Fifty-two miles of chain-link fence? Well, you can't be too careful. By all means, read the grocery list for the athletes. Pork, 63,700 Ibs.; beef, 206,555 Ibs.; 70,000 dozen eggs. (You do deliver?) You say that if someone laid those eggs end to end they'd stretch for 25 miles? One pooped chicken. That's a joke, son. No harm, no foul...
...equipment in exchange for Government-backed loans, and so forth. It is an interesting idea, until one recalls the exhausting battles that invariably surround a single corporate bailout, such as that of Lockheed or Chrysler Corp. Moreover, an industrial recovery and reinvestment bill could easily become a hopeless pork barrel by the time lobbyists and horse-trading Congressmen finish with it. Such outcomes trouble many new-generation Democrats. "I am not sure Americans respond well to economic plans with a capital P," says Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis...
...elegantly sane demonstrations that the world is crazy. But if she enlists in an army, it is likely to be Bombeck's. Am I really down on the kitchen floor with an old pair of Jockey shorts doing this? Yes, and there's Bombeck with pork chops under her arms. Such realizations (epiphanies, a James Joyce scholar would call them) explain Bombeck's syndication in those 900 papers, the wild success of her seven books, and reader loyalty that does not stop short of fanaticism. No doubt they also explain her eight-year run on Good Morning...