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KIRK FORDICE Hypocrisy alert! Mississippi Governor and Clinton critic leaves wife for another woman...
...their command have taken the familiar Tarzan iconography--vine swinging, Jane, Cheetah, the jungle yodel--then freshened or deepened it. This ape-man (animated by Glen Keane and voiced by Tony Goldwyn) is no longer a swinger; he rides the twisting highways of tree boughs like the coolest surfer. (Alert, all Disney park ride designers: have the Tarzan Twist ready by next spring...
...Stalin's Moscow trials entered their second year and the more alert American comrades began to notice that something was wrong in paradise, Rodgers and Hart opened Babes in Arms on Broadway. One song in the show, I Wish I Were in Love Again, had a friskily sardonic line about "the self-deception that believes the lie." A lyric...
...that Cassie Bernall, who bravely professed her religious faith while staring down the barrel of a gun at the height of the Columbine massacre, was not so much a hero and a martyr as an untreated candidate for lithium? For the education establishment to go on red alert at the first sign of spirituality in their students would be a devastating development...
...made for both types of magic bullet, whether they are bought on the street or in a pharmacy. A profoundly mixed message is being sent to teens when certain substances are demonized for promoting the same subjective states touted on the labels of other compounds. Adolescents, who are famously alert to hypocrisy among their elders, will surely be the first to catch this irony...