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Why can't the Master Vampire in John Carpenter's Vampires , a creature who has repeatedly demonstrated his ability to disembowel and decapitate humans with a single swipe of his hand, manage to do anything more deadly to James Woods during their final epochal confrontation than just cuff him around?
To be sure, Gore still takes the odd swipe at Bradley.
In the toy-store scene, for instance, Oskar says of a neighbor who also took part in the great national pogrom, though he wasn't in that particular store: "Meyn was not there," he says, "just as the ones who were there were not somewhere else"--a swipe at all the Germans who claimed not to have been around whenever Nazi crimes took place.
But it's the WP , in an inside story, which observes that Clinton in his brief remarks eulogizing Chiles seemed to take an oblique swipe at Russell Feingold, the lone Senate Democrat to vote against the White House in the past two days.
(The quote is from David Whitman's The Optimism Gap .) Earlier this month, Bennett spoke in a similar vein when he defended an offhand swipe at Robert Bork's sourpuss tome Slouching Towards Gomorrah that George W. Bush made in a recent speech on education.