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After months of brainless Hollywood bombast, you can look not for bigger films but for smarter ones. The romance novels of summer are beach litter now; time to buckle down to nonfiction. TV may be ready to take off its dancing shoes and take on weighty subjects-like a Chris Rock sitcom that defuses racism by exploding...
After months of brainless Hollywood bombast, you can look not for bigger films but for smarter ones. The romance novels of summer are beach litter now; time to buckle down to nonfiction. TV may be ready to take off its dancing shoes and take on weighty subjects--like a Chris Rock sitcom that defuses racism by exploding...
...Wolf Shenk observed that Lincoln's words have been used to support all kinds of causes. That's because Lincoln was a true leader who used his humor to disarm his adversaries and his common sense and knowledge of humanity to gradually ease them into a new position without bombast and stonewalling. Unfortunately, today we seem to be lacking political leaders with those abilities. If our elected representatives studied Lincoln a little more or studied as he did, things just might improve...
...release of George Lucas' space opera marks the point at which American film shook off any aesthetic aspirations and embraced explosions. Depending on what kind of movies you like--the Bonnie and Clyde-- Midnight Cowboy artiness that preceded Lucas' blockbuster-to-change-all-blockbusters or the Top Gun--Matrix bombast that followed--Star Wars was either the end or the beginning...
...alleged U.S. violations of human rights as the Move bombing in Philadelphia. Sample fulmination: according to Pravda, "the United States is going through a 'prison boom.' Camps for dissidents are hastily being built there." The Soviets may even try to counter American allegations of human rights abuse with propagandistic bombast about the purported torture of fickle Soviet Defector Vitaly Yurchenko...