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Jackson said that opponents of affirmative action couch the debate concerning reconciliation of these systems in the language of race, obscuring underlying economic issues...
...there we are, my seven-year-old son and I, sitting on the couch last week, watching the evening news. I flatter myself that it's a scene from the civics textbooks: Dad introducing Junior to the wide world of public affairs. My son knows something is up with President Clinton, but he's not sure what, precisely, and I'm not sure I want to explain it to him. Suddenly the words Oval Office pop out from the newsreader, and then President, then oral sex, and my son's brow furrows. He looks up at me, thoroughly puzzled...
Even that which we enjoy of his world, he doesn't know to temper. Having Jackson's gun runner sit Robert DeNiro's aging felon on a couch and show a video of gals with guns--that's a master touch. But lingering on the boring homebody life of a criminal is a little too much, even if DeNiro's the criminal: I'm not all for the experiential method of getting an audience to feel the consummate boredom of a character by subjecting them to the same...
Twelve Angry Potatoes Our Couch Potato guide, featuring courtroom thrillers to match this week's courtroom fireworks...
...Good" The No. 3 network's print campaign lampoons the very idea of watching TV. For example, ABC gleefully twists the notion, popular in some circles, that TV rots your brain. In place of such warnings, ABC coins its own cheeky maxims, like "The couch is your friend." We hear...