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...homemade video of a black motorist being beaten by police succeeded in burning down a sizable part of Los Angeles. The moral struggle between Dan Quayle and Murphy Brown seemed perfect and fascinating, as if all the weaknesses of both politics and television (the short attention span, the brainless evanescence, the disconnection) were leaking into one another...
...rioting that men in groups on dangerous excursions sometimes use as a form of bonding -- solidarities of atrocity on the late shift. The truck-driver video looked like ritual sacrifice, the helicopter circling overhead, the rioters circling the trucker's flung body. Both videos recorded naked power dances, conscienceless, brainless, evil, pain inflicting: I have your life under my boot. To look at them last week was to see Americans of both races going backward at the speed of light...
Sure, Bird recently scored 49 points against the brainless Portland Trailblazers. But performances like this--even strings of them--do not mean that Bird has tapped into the fountain of youth. Given his otherworldly skills, such a game against a team like Portland is not out of the question. What is most important is the impact that the last two or three years of Bird's career will have upon the rest of his life...
...Clinton mess last week suggested something about a certain brainless overstimulation of American media life. In his novel Humboldt's Gift, Saul Bellow wrote about the arrival of fame: "I experienced the high voltage of publicity. It was like picking up a dangerous wire fatal to ordinary folk. It was like the rattlesnakes handled by hillbillies in a state of religious exaltation." Bill Clinton, wholesome, ruddy Arkansas boy, found himself handling poisonous snakes. Ugly stories have a slithering life of their...
...arguing for network teletrials because secret sentencing is bad is as brainless as urging rock climbers to carry 50-gallon water canteens. If you go hiking in the sun, take some water, but don't take so much that you can't walk...