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...country's myths or shared stories? The land that rode to riches on the backs of sheep has been shorn of many of its farmers and farm markets. The swagman, that mythical figure who roamed the rural vastness at the turn of the century carrying only a rolled-up blanket, a tin mug and a packet of tea, is now but a name for a Melbourne night spot. A society that once boasted aggressive classlessness had 31,000 millionaires by 1990. Some experts are . worried that Australians can no longer develop a common sense of pride. Ivan Deveson, the former...
More worrisome are lingering rumors that the President once had an extramarital affair. In 1987 eldest son George W. Bush informed Newsweek that he had asked his father about adultery and had been told that "the answer to the Big A question is N.O." That blanket denial put the issue to rest during the last campaign. But questions about Clinton's alleged infidelity, which have become something of a humorous refrain in the Bush camp, have brought such matters back into the public domain; it may be only a matter of weeks before Bush is directly asked about...
...Mickey Mouse as the antichrist, they are simply proving their obsession with things American. U.S. pop is their guilty pleasure. The French love American culture even as they love to hate it. Four of their five top-grossing films are from Hollywood, tepid versions of U.S. game shows blanket French TV, and it isn't just American tourists who patronize the Burger King restaurants on the Champs Elysees...
MOORE: Yeah, in the true sense of theword, because what we're doing is not part of anygenre. Unfortunately, the word "alternative" hastaken on the characteristics of the term "newwave," which was such a blanket term which wasapplied to a wide range of music but which skimmeddown to anyone who wore white shirts and skinnyties. Alternative has become a catch word whichmeans either R.E.M. or the Manchester thing. Whenyou say alternative, it conjures up a relativelyslim categorization. There are so many bands whichare called alternative just because they'realternate to the mainstream, but they are themainstream after a while...
...check, though, won't solve the problem. Many people who don't give a quarter to a homeless person because it seems futile would happily give a lot more than that to live again (as we did barely a decade ago) in a society where the sight of a blanket-wrapped beggar is shocking. In a democracy, "government coercion" is a crude misrepresentation of the process by which citizens make a collective decision to achieve together what they cannot achieve individually...