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...well-behaved rhymes for church congregations. No, he would let every foul smell out of the bag; a chronicler, he would bring back the long war as a word-butchery, let loose gruesome laughter, and give the language license to be what it is: crude and softspoken, whole and stricken . . . but always drawn from the casks of life...
...unsteady, occasionally weird behavior resulted from drinking. That sort of confession can be exemplary and thus publicly useful. But in others it can also be opportunistic. Maryland's conservative Congressman Robert Bauman pleaded not guilty to making homosexual advances to a 16-year-old boy; Bauman, with his stricken wife standing behind him - her eyes glazed with that I-am-not-here-I-am-actually-in-Chicago look - told a press conference that booze made him do it. Then in the formulation of media penance, in which a celebrity hears his own confession before lights and cameras and solemnly...
...blatant sexual jokes get reworded and references to Congressmen who get arrested for sodomy are stricken, but most of our stuff is okayed." Pinto said...
...before many hours have passed)--"I'd feel pretty bad if I didn't see so many of my friends here." Kind soft-spoken Ivy men take them aside and counsel them. Join Prospect, they gently urge (each adjusting his identical green and yellow striped tie). Join the poverty-stricken cooperative where you'll take turns waiting on your own tables and mopping the floor and be looked down upon for three years by the members of the real clubs. Join the wonk club, join the club for leftovers, and (ever so gently) hurry up about...
...Muslim and Palestinian sections of the coastal cities of Tyre and Sidon, while Israeli paratroopers launched large-scale attacks against Palestinian strongholds in the area. With concerted international help, Lebanon's President Elias Sarkis managed to obtain a tenuous ceasefire. As International Red Cross convoys rushed into the stricken areas with medical assistance, the country counted the grim toll: at least 265 civilians killed, more than 1,000 wounded...