Word: bunkerism
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Should we care? As Barbara Bunker, who teaches psychology at the State University of New York, Buffalo, very sensibly notes, "It's a dramatic piece, not a ((literal)) description of what's going on in our society. It seems to me that drama is supposed to make things larger than life so you get the point." Agrees Regina Barreca, who teaches English at the University of Connecticut and is the author of They Used to Call Me Snow White but I Drifted, a book about women and humor: "It has got to be seen not as a cultural representation...
Much of the album is obscene and misogynistic. To me Luther Campbell's performance made black macho seem silly, made it seem unattractive. It's never an easy question to distinguish between parody and the thing that's being parodied. Like Archie Bunker. Did Archie Bunker critique racism or did he reinforce racism? It's an open question...
...well aware of American displeasure with Japan's failure to live up to expectations during the gulf war. Not only did Tokyo prove unable to muster even noncombatant participation in the conflict, but its purse also seemed as hard to crack as a Republican Guard bunker. The Japanese felt chastened by Bush's postponement of a spring visit to Tokyo while the President and Secretary of State James Baker undertook a round of meetings with leaders from nations that contributed militarily to the victorious coalition. Worried about U.S. ill-feeling, Tokyo hurriedly arranged this week's Kaifu-Bush meeting...
...They surprised me by not fighting harder," says Marine General Walt Boomer of the Iraqi forces. "But if they had fought for every bunker, the outcome would have been the same." There is little doubt of that, but allied casualties would have been much higher. The coalition's commanders and troops can say they did, in the end, play Saddam's game -- and beat...
...slogan "No Blood for Oil" proclaimed that unease, as if oil were Miller High Life and not the stuff that powers most of the world's economies. Americans felt the chill of that wrongness when Iraqi women and children were carried, charred by American bombs, out of a Baghdad bunker...