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Without campaign-finance reform, all this will only get worse. Midway through Behind the Oval Office, the abject recollections of Dick Morris, there comes a moment when the President, sick of struggling to pay for the TV advertising that Morris had started more than a year before Election Day, unburdens himself: "I can't think. I can't act. I can't do anything but go to fund raisers and shake hands...
Which isn't to underplay the movie's aesthetic triumph. With its unprecedented blend of narrative innocence and stylistic sophistication, of pseudomythic solemnity and high-tech kick, of abject weirdness and cunning familiarity, Star Wars helped set the standard for what a modern commercial movie can be at its best (ingenious, kinetic, exhilarating). Unfortunately it also provided a template with which countless imitators have since shown what a modern commercial movie can be at its dreariest (mind numbing, mechanical, pointlessly assaultive). For good or evil, Star Wars has been to the past two decades of American moviemaking what Ronald Reagan...
...ETHICS, Aug. 12]. Why do so many of these fertility clinics even exist? Why do we have clinics devoted to making children in cases of infertility? Instead, why not turn our maternal and paternal feelings toward the millions of abandoned children worldwide who are condemned to suffer lives of abject misery or even slavery? Why aren't the governments of the world attempting to settle on a unified standard law to promote the adoption of these children into loving homes, and drive the "baby selling" industry out of business? D. SCOTT YOUNG Wurzburg, Germany Via E-mail...
Nice of him to offer. But if human dignity has much to do with chess mastery, then most of us are so abject that not even Kasparov can save us. If we must vest the honor of our species in some quintessentially human feat and then defy a machine to perform it, shouldn't it be something the average human can do? Play a mediocre game of Trivial Pursuit, say? (Or lose to Kasparov in chess...
...city of Atlanta proves the folly of underestimating the potential of the South. The capital of this region of "abject backwardness" refuses to fit the stereotype. The Olympics are coming. Conventions continue to pour in, and companies such as Coca-Cola ad IBM continue to locate their headquarters in this booming city. Atlanta's regional theater, under the artistic direction of an African-American, was recently hailed nationally as the model for diversifying its audience. The Symphony is first-rate, the film and music industries are growing and the theatrical production is explosive. Historically, the South has produced such artists...