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...contact with my professor, no interest in the subject and no understanding of where my tuition fees were going. Susannah, articles like yours justify the University's policy of keeping down the number of core offerings. Instead of writing editorials about the pleasure you get from sitting on the butt-flattening benches in lecture halls, you should help lend public pressure to bring the arrogant administration of this University to its knees by explaining the real causes of huge lectures. --Dorian Berger...
...Gulf War and now says she was wrong. She pushed to capture Somali warlord Mohammed Farrah Aidid, but has been sobered by that debacle. She advocated "assertive multilateralism" in Bosnia, which meant joining forces with the U.N. to impose a peace, but when that fuzzy "ism" became the butt of jokes, she dropped it. What's less clear is where the lessons of Munich next apply. "I would never recommend that the President of the U.S. use force lightly," she says. She follows a "doability doctrine": America should use its military power where it can to achieve practical if sometimes...
That includes kicking, as in butt. She does that literally in Linklater's Dazed and Confused, as the high school senior for whom terrorizing freshman girls is both a solemn duty and a fashion statement. She can also be tough on men. In Sleep with Me she warns a guy, "I hope you don't think you're going to sleep with me"; two minutes later she's mounting him with lithe expertise. If her women are softer in the three new films, all have a nervy self-assurance; they seem convinced not that they will be stars but that...
...your story on the decline of audiences for foreign films in the U.S. [CINEMA, Jan. 13], you included the remarks of a specialized film booker who said, "Even college students" no longer go to foreign films but would rather watch Beavis and Butt-head. Hey, dude, listen up. As a junior at Carnegie Mellon University, I am offended by such a blanket statement. Believe it or not, there are mature, intelligent college students who can understand, follow and appreciate foreign films. We can even grasp all the topics that gramps knew. Your attitude is just part of the epidemic...
...racial stereotypes, the laughs don't always fall on the side of the angels. And speaking of demeaning racial stereotypes, the current issue includes two cartoons dealing with the supposed largeness of African-American penises and a curious TV spoof in which The Nanny's Fran Drescher "paints her butt with shoe polish. Then she sits on her big, black ass and collects [welfare] checks. Hilarity ensues." Well, maybe. But not in The People vs. Larry Flynt, which turns a blind eye to this recurrent aspect of the Flynt oeuvre...