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Civil libertarians suggested the ruling will cramp the style of broadcasters as well as the range of subjects they are willing to discuss. Barry Lynn, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer in Washington, D.C., noted that Stern's monologues may be rude, but they are not lewd and are "well within the bounds of protected bad taste" as guaranteed by the First Amendment. David Salniker, executive director of the Pacifica Foundation, which operates one of the stations reprimanded by the FCC, argued that the agency is far too vague about where it is drawing the line. "Does this mean that...
...polishing an artful act, not because they had the momentary nerve to commit an outrageous one. Besides, after they have endured the indifference of the youthful production staff and the chaos of rehearsal and performance (there is a power failure just as they begin their act, and a leg cramp causes Pippo to fall in the middle of it), we see that, modest though their talents are, Pippo and Amelia had, and still have, a gift. It is the capacity to provide something universal and necessary, the romantic gesture. That grace may or may not be a vanishing...
Toad thought of Henry James. For decades, James wandered Europe and the U.S., staying in hotels or in friends' houses. He was completely mobile. He needed only pen and paper to write his usual six hours a day. Then in middle age, he got writer's cramp. He bought a typewriter, and, of course, needed a servant to operate the thing. So now James was more and more confined to his home in Sussex, pacing the room, dictating to the typist and the clacking machine. James became a prisoner of progress...
...attracting the attention of their wives. Hint: get the little woman to stop counting rifles and start thinking "all those guns." He also offers some badly needed collective nouns, based on the pattern of an exaltation of larks: a sulk of unsuccessful fishermen, a whiff of skunk trappers, a cramp of camp cooks. All of which should beguile McManus' growing cackle of devotees...
...author's vision has accommodated itself most comfortably in his nine novels; big questions take up lots of space. But the smaller scale displayed by the five stories in this collection does not noticeably cramp Bellow's style. The old energies and preoccupations, the querulous people and the rollicking backdrops are all here, at full intensity. There are simply more stops and starts...