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Baker's wit only partially conceals an earnest preoccupation with the sad state of the U.S. as he sees it. Too much is synthetic and contrived, he insists, from the current sterile search for the "real self" to the bloodless, painless violence that saturates TV. Everything is produced to be consumed and discarded, and he puts his column in the same category. "There is something sneaky about us," he writes, proving once again that the best humorists are often arch-pessimists. "It is almost as if we were determined to come and go without leaving a footprint...
What is perhaps unsatisfactory and bloodless in Wilson is not so much the usual charge that he "hates people"; if he has defects, they are of the mind rather than the heart. He lacks the philosophic gravitas that his theme calls for. Perhaps he would have summoned more compassion for his subject had he chosen a family less demonic and closer to what one hopes to be the demographic norm...
NANCY WILSON: LUSH LIFE (Capitol). This is a great record to play at a cocktail party while talking to someone fascinating about the troubles of being in love. Nancy Wilson has an intrinsic musicality that injects life into essentially bloodless songs like Midnight Sun and You've Changed, an asset that makes the record as listenable as it is unimportant...
...weary Britons tossed out Winston Churchill's Tories and gave Labor an overwhelming 146-seat majority in Commons. Frail and diffident, timid in crowds and a mediocre public speaker, he seemed an unlikely leader for such a challenging moment. He surprised everyone by proceeding to direct a "bloodless revolution" the likes of which Britain had not experienced since the Reform Bill of 1832 created the modern Parliament. Attlee's Laborites set up an entire social security system and welfare state in Britain, and joggled the underpinning of Britain's free-enterprise system by nationalizing the huge steel...
...predictions of mayhem on the highway on H-day, the elaborate preparations were well worth the $120 million that they cost motorists in special taxes. Aside from a few bent fenders and dented egos, the change was, in fact, so bloodless that two days passed before Sweden reported a single traffic fatality...