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Charles Krauthammer makes this case in the post-election issue of the Weekly Standard . ("No Excuses, No Alibis," declares the editors' self-congratulatory headline, as if pinning the entire blame on one scapegoat deserves a medal for intellectual valor.)
Instead the talk is increasingly of a resurgent, nationalist Russia, pinning its hopes of salvation on a strong leader.
For clothes, they wove the cloth in person-sized widths and lengths--no cutting off the bolt--and garments were created by draping, pinning, or wrapping them onto the body.
(Also, isn't pinning today's celebrity culture on rock letting the tabloids, glossies, talk shows, Hollywood, etc., etc., off a bit easy?
Oh, and regarding your last letter's comment about Gore pinning Bradley to the floor and lying on top of him, its a good idea, but somehow I don't think it'd work, because that's obviously what Tipper's been doing to Al herself since their first teen-age (but presumably non-rock 'n' roll concert) date.