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...Enter Carlin Romano, book critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer. Writing for the leftist weekly The Nation, Romano started off his review of Only Words on a decidedly personal note, "Suppose I decided to rape Catharine MacKinnon before reviewing her book." Not exactly objective journalism. But by writing about deeds he did not do, Romano is trying to expose the absurdity of MacKinnon's argument that words and pictures equal deeds...
...more proof that words have consequences, there is Carlin Romano, book critic of the Philadelphia Inquirer. His Nov. 15 review of MacKinnon's work in the left-leaning weekly the Nation set off a war of words that is reaching new heights of animosity. Romano, a former philosophy instructor, opened his review with a hypothetical proposition. "Suppose I decide to rape Catharine MacKinnon before reviewing her book. Because I'm uncertain whether she understands the difference between being raped and being exposed to pornography, I consider it required research for my critique of her manifesto...
Even if that much is granted, Romano's rhetorical conceit has brought dozens of mostly angry letters to the Nation, demands for an apology from two men's antirape groups and an escalating campaign of bitter counterpunching from MacKinnon and her supporters. "Carlin Romano should be held accountable for what he did," MacKinnon threatened last week in the Washington Post. "There are a lot of people out there, and a lot of ways that can be done...
...Comics Superman editor Mike Carlin, hoping to boost newsstand sales, declares that "an escapee from a cosmic lunatic asylum" named Doomsday will murder the Man of Steel. The state of Pennsylvania touts itself as a place for "multiple personalities" to suggest it has much to offer tourists. A character on Roseanne argues that only "murderers, psychos and schizos" can beat a lie-detector test. On election eve, Ross Perot tells a cheering crowd, "We're all crazy again now! We got buses lined up outside to take you back to the insane asylum...
TELEVISION Comedian George Carlin: appalling, invaluable...