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...change is in order: the stream has been crossed, the horse should buck, throw off the old and get a new rider, one worthy of it. Of us. That man in this race would be Bush, the gentleman from Texas...
Worse, Terrence McNally's book coarsens what the movie danced around so delicately: the notion that these beefy blue-collar guys would turn into Chippendales dancers to make a buck. There are enough penis jokes to fill a segment of the Howard Stern Show, and some of the new physical gags--one character keeps crashing into walls--look like outtakes from Carry On, Stripper. The result is a long slog to the famous last scene, where the boys get up in front of the town to take it all off. Which they do, in the clever high spot...
...good taste ends there. Just as you begin to think that the festival isn't really that sick, on comes a "Birth of Abomination" flick in which a buck-toothed, blue-haired individual named Motormouth swallows the newborn infant of a prostitute, leaving the umbilical cord dangling from his mouth like a string of spaghetti. And then comes the "Sloaches(tm) Fun House." I'm not even getting into the "Sloaches(tm) Fun House"-The Crimson, after all, is a family paper...
...idiocy is what followed: The television play-by-play man, Joe Buck, went sanctimoniously nuts, howling at Clemens as if he were the Son of Sam; and other media joined in the braying, which reached such a pitch that the commissioner felt obliged to impose a fine of $50,000 on Clemens for his murderous act. The New York Times' columnist Maureen Dowd seized the occasion; she used the incident as a metaphor of male aggression in another one of her cheeky, tedious sermonettes on testosterone and the imbecility of the male...
...intricacies of foreign exchange don't really matter here, but the fallout does. For globetrotting Americans from Barcelona to Bonn, things are 25% cheaper than at home. The strong buck also means that European goods cost less in the States, which helps hold down inflation and interest rates...