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According to Justice Anthony Kennedy, it's a place where people "practice newly learned vulgarities, erupt with anger, tease and embarrass each other, share offensive notes, flirt, push and shove in the halls, grab and offend."
Leading the war caucus are Brit Hume and Catherine Crier (both on Fox News Sunday ), who predict that when push comes to shove Congress will support the troops, and Tony Blankley (CNN's Late Edition ) and Bill Kristol ( This Week ), who sense public support for a drawn-out ground war.
Men collide, blow themselves in half with their own mishandled grenades, stab themselves frantically with morphine needles, shove cigarettes up their noses to keep the stench of the dying and the dead at bay.
Jujitsu's few-holds-barred grappling is far more effective when push comes to shove (and worse) than standing arts such as karate.
David Mamet--who, coincidentally, wrote Connery's marvelous dialogue in that movie--gave the American theater a brusque shove out of the romantic realm of disillusioned lefties such as Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller into a brutal capitalist realism, wherein every encounter was reduced to an attempt by one party to hoodwink, psych out, or otherwise overpower another.
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