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(To hear an example, click ".") Psychological manipulations that work on almost everyone fail with Watto--"Mind ticks don'ta work on me ...
Clever parody site that captures Gore's ticks and shticks.
The coverage ticks off some of the other Cassandra factors: several million people fleeing their homes (with all the fronts that run pictures showing the resultant traffic jams); the mass cancellation of airline flights; and the first-time-ever shutdown of Disney World.
The paper effortlessly ticks off several of the scandal's other new poontangents: a federal judge's denial of Clinton's request for a speed-up of the Paula Jones case, another federal judge's allowing Kenneth Starr to get his hands on a sealed deposition made by the allegedly lipstick-smeared and disheveled Oval Office visitor Kathleen Willey, and the turn-over to Starr of boxes of Jones case materials about yet other women thought linked to Clinton.
The film also reflects Selena's down-to-earth style, at least as described in media accounts and in such books as the unauthorized biography Selena: Como la Flor (1996), by Joe Nick Patoski, a senior editor at Texas Monthly . Selena the movie ticks off the points made in numerous profiles.