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...third bloc could materialize because Israel's cumbersome proportional- representation system allocates disproportionate political power to small parties -- a mere 1% of the popular vote, roughly 20,000 ballots, can yield a Knesset seat. Once again the system prevented the country from electing a strong, united government. As Gad Ya'acobi, a Laborite and Minister of Economics and Planning, noted, "We have institutionalized the tyranny of the minority." To put together a slim majority, Shamir will have to accommodate not only the four religious parties but also three extreme-right secular factions whose platforms all advocate annexing the occupied territories...
Kennedy's charisma is undeniable. At a Democratic Club-sponsored speech in the Science Center last week, Kennedy's presence immediately filled the hall. As he walked down the aisle, introducing himself with "How ya doin'? Joe Kennedy," his love of the "people" aspect of politics was never more apparent...
...eyes moved vertically, and their mouths shouted "Woman!" and "How ya doin'?" Brooke's friend Dave, who said he frequents the Sports Bar to all of his old Belmont Hill buddies, explained that most of the women in the bar were not Harvard types. "Pine Manor," he said, pointing to a nearby table in the second room...
...character to another, weaving innumerable surreal symbols among them, as Waits struggles to decide whether the intensity and innocence of the unknown are lost or perverted in the star. The huckster squalls piano-bar ballads--I'm gonna hit the top, take New York, and hey don't ya love my band--Waits drives out his songs, pistol ricochets dubbed over the cracking of his boot heels, and Frank spins out his dreams...
...head into a television set, "your big break in TV!" He impudently asks a girl, "Wanna suck face?" and does so, fatally. He drowns one horny lad in his water bed: "How's this for a wet dream?" At a nightmare diner ("If the food don't kill ya, the service will!"), he transforms one boy, literally, into a pizza face ("Rick, you little meatball!"), then devours him ("Mmmm, soul food!"). Another victim sprouts insect legs when trapped in Freddy's Roach Motel: "You can check in, but you can't check...