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DIED. Lester Cole, 81, prolific screenwriter (None Shall Escape, 1944; Objective, Burma!, 1945) and one of the "Hollywood Ten," writers and directors convicted of contempt of Congress and blacklisted in the 1940s after they refused to testify about Communist infiltration of the industry; in San Francisco...
...course, historically unreliable. For Hare is a British twit of the tiresomely superior leftist kind. We have no doubt that if he, instead of Blair, had been Prime Minister, he would have stood up more manfully to the Bushies. We have no doubt of his pip-pip contempt for the primitive politics of his slightly dim-witted American cousins. This attitude is fun. And it makes us squirm. But attitude is not insight. We leave Stuff Happens thinking that the chief defect of American politics is its lack of sly and worldly Oxbridge graduates of the kind serving Blair...
...hate your hips? Your butt? Be careful what you say. Self-contempt passes from generation to generation. Just recently, on a New York State college campus, Emily, 20, recoiled when her boyfriend squeezed her, exclaiming, "I love your arms!" Emily hated them. "My mother thought her arms were fat and flabby," she explains. "She'd never wear anything sleeveless. I thought that I was like...
...disgruntled Hill conversed with supporters in court following the hearing yesterday, causing the judge to interrupt the proceedings to threaten Hill with contempt of court...
SENATOR MCCAIN: Mr. Chairman, Senator Inouye has Taffy Lites, and he won't share. Could you place in the record that this is a show of contempt for democracy...