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...bathroom when these things are on the loose. And as for making illicit love in the john, forget about it. But to be honest about it, the laughs engendered by these incidents derive more from simple shock - ewww, yuck - than from any - dare we say it in this context? - more subtle response...
...crucially, in their central authority. What good are elections or constitutions without this foundation of trust, the decision to be one people? That is what nation building really means, I thought while walking the once-bloodshed Gettysburg battleground. But then I put Lincoln’s words in rightful context. There was no single “people” in America when he delivered the Gettysburg Address. He spoke in the middle of a bitter civil war to encourage one half of “the people” to keep fighting the other half.Lincoln...
...laffs. "Please don't applaud," he'd sometimes say on stage. "It breaks my rhythm." And in his last years, when he'd devote maybe an hour of his act to a recitation of his trial trials, Lenny was often still funny, but in a much drier, more serious context. (At the very end, he could be so stoned he could barely hold a mic, let alone an audience's attention.) Krassner asked Lenny how these lectures on the law squared with his old 15-25-second rules, and he replied, "I'm not a comedian. I'm Lenny Bruce...
...turn away. To me, one of our tasks is to take you to another world, in this case, a world that while remote from many of us affects all of us. TIME's job is to help you understand that world, to put the news of the day in context, and Bobby's riveting story gives us insight into a moment that may influence the course of the rest of the century...
...looks like hell on earth. It also seems to me that, in reality, this emptiness would probably be an invitation to long, gloomy thoughts about mortality and the meaninglessness of life when there's no job to go to, no kids to raise, no hopes to entertain. In this context, it is easy to see why sex - or, anyway, the thought of sex, the dream of sex - becomes so important to everyone. It becomes part of a 12-step program to keep the bogeyman...