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The current shock and horror over alleged large soft-money donations to the Democratic National Committee by foreign nationals (Koreans, Taiwanese, and Indonesians) in return for economic- and military-policy considerations by the Clinton administration is amusing--as if soft-money contributions made by domestic corporations and executives are somehow better, less sullied, more ethical.
Fred Thompson's hearings have done what Lott and his henchmen Don Nickles and Mitch McConnell feared they would do--they have dramatized the general horror of the current system more than they have the particular excesses of the incumbent president.
When she hears herself saying that being with her husband is "like being with papa," she pauses for a second, then flashes her eyes with something close to a recognition of primal sin, utters a sound somewhere between a hysterical giggle and a shriek of horror, and rushes across the room as if in flight from her own words.
Eder says the prose has "so much that is implicit and hollowed out, so much emptiness between the sentences, that the reader is called upon to enter, invent and rearrange," and with "a shivery economy of means and a dreadful lavishness of effect, Mr. O'Nan advances the horror on parallel tracks."
Every step is taken in this three-year-old's progress toward ultimate horror.