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...intelligent man who frittered away much of his youth on TV, movies and video games. You kids out there would be wise to do the same. In Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter (Riverhead Books; 238 pages), the social critic and technologist (Mind Wide Open) makes a thought-provoking argument that today's allegedly vacuous media are, well, thought provoking...
...government security clearance after an inquiry into his past association with communists. As an effort to prove that he had been a party member, much less one involved in espionage, the inquest was a failure. Its real purpose was larger, however: to punish the most prominent American critic of the U.S. move from atomic weapons to the much more lethal hydrogen bomb...
Robert Crumb will undoubtedly go down in history as comicdom's most complex artist. Publicly shy, he nevertheless makes himself the focus of much of his work; highly critical of consumer culture he nevertheless has tons of "merch" and a website to push it; most importantly he uses the "harmless" medium of comic books to explore the outer reaches of adult assumptions about race, sex and the American condition. New Yorkers recently had a rare opportunity to see Crumb face his contradictions and his legacy when he appeared at the New York Public Library in a conversation with Robert Hughes...
...called for a separate African-American theater, castigated black playwrights and directors for participating in an "art that is conceived and designed to entertain white society" and decried the increasingly fashionable practice of "color-blind casting"--i.e., blacks playing traditionally white roles. The outcry was fierce; the drama critic Robert Brustein, in a blistering rebuttal in the New Republic, disparaged Wilson's plays and denounced his words as the "language of self-segregation...
...break down interparty rivalries. Then there's Ichita Yamamoto, a 47-year-old LDP member and a graduate of Georgetown University, who says that 70-80% of the newly elected parliamentarians are in support of amending the constitution. A frequent guest on TV political talk shows and a strident critic of North Korea, Yamamoto was a vocal proponent of a law passed last year that prohibits uninsured ships from entering Japanese ports. Because most North Korean vessels don't have insurance, the legislation effectively cut off the rogue regime from Japanese trade...