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...punk movement was simply a case of fashion catching up to where the fringe movements of art had been for years. If we look back as far as the 1910s, we can see a distinct and sometimes exact precursor of the punks' nihilism in a group called the Dada. What is new about the punks is that they're not artists or intellectuals. Instead, they're ordinary, often suburban kids, who have no real idea what they're unhappy about--they know only that they're unhappy. What was once an attitude exclusive to a well-educated fringe has become...
WHERE THE PUNK movement differs from that of the Dadas is in the backgrounds of their members. The Dadas were artists dissatisfied with the art form over which they had achieved a reasonable degree of mastery. They were, in a sense, trying to unravel the fabric of society from the inside. The most famous Dadaist, Marcel Duchamp, said "Dada was the extreme protest against the physical side of painting, a metaphysical attitude, a blank force." In the late teens, Duchamp became an accomplished chess player and decided to give up painting because it "bored" him. Thus, the Dadas were...
...most part, though, the campaign was a fairly shallow personality contest. It had a maddeningly evasive quality about it. It was as if television news, with its gift for dramatic fragments of reality, made Dada arrangements of each day's history. The rush of images seemed to give the entire political process a ruinously short attention span. As the English poet George Meredith once prayed, "More brain, O Lord, more brain...
...Cambodia, African-style." That is how some Westerners describe Uganda today, five years after the fall of Dictator Idi Amin Dada. They contend that the government of President Apollo Milton Obote, whom Amin deposed in 1971 and who returned to power in 1980, has caused the deaths of as many as 100,000 Ugandan civilians and brought another 150,000 to the brink of starvation in a ruthless campaign to wipe out guerrillas. "We had hoped that the country would continue to make progress away from the terrible Idi Amin years," said U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights...
...course it always got worse, the two-and-a-half-year-old toddler scurried into the kitchen, demanding her breakfast. Cereal wouldn't do; no, she only wanted waffles with peanut butter on top. The baby couldn't talk back: she didn't even know how to say dada. The two-year-old responded with no's, now's, and why not's and as usual she had forgotten to put on her underwear...