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...tenderness hasn't softened him. A creep shakes him down, and he pokes a chopstick in the guy's eye. Nishi is not post-modern so much as post-mortem. Stick a gun in his face?he has no reaction. Go ahead and shoot, his look says. I'm dead already. Oblivion is the embrace he seeks, for himself and his wife. At the end, they sit on the beach; she thanks him "for everything," and he shoots them both dead...
...take Eminem. There's a lot to criticize in his woman- and gay-bashing lyrics, but without excusing him, it's hard to say that he makes himself look good delivering the message. In his most violent songs, like Kim, he comes off as an unbalanced, whiny creep brutalizing women (his wife, his mother) out of weakness. He can barely issue a boast ("Shady will f___in' kill you") without undermining it with a pathetic image ("I'm like a mummy at night.../Frightened with five little white Vicodin pills bitin...
Most tax pros believe enforcement levels will creep higher this year, starting with collection efforts in old cases. The odds of being audited will trend higher too, though probably not by a lot--until next year. By the way, this is a good thing. Seriously. Most of us are subject to withholding and have little opportunity to fudge. The extent to which fudgers get nailed and would-be fudgers discouraged keeps everyone's tax bill lower...
These days the only way Hollywood can tell a story of ordinary people struggling with the awesome challenges and compromises of family life is to reduce them to sugarific fantasy. And further, to view life's choices as Manichean, Jack is either a rich creep or a humanized husband and father. Kate sees it that way: when Jack talks his way into a job with the firm he used to run, she all but refuses the move to Manhattan. Who'd want to leave misery in the 'burbs...
...greatest concerns expressed by conservationists is that Bush would allow environmentally damaging riders attached to otherwise popular spending bills to creep out of Congress and become law without the threat of a presidential veto. "Rolling back is not going to be easy," says George Frampton of the Council on Environmental Quality. "But sitting on one's hands for four years is going to be easy, and we can't afford that...