Word: dares
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there is some hope. When Madonna's Truth or Dare movie came out, following her "Justify My Love" scandal, many Americans breathed a sigh of relief. She had done it all. There was just nothing left that could be more shocking or obscene. Perhaps this is our consolation for Bush's shameful appearance on television advertisements...
...highest pitch, is a poet of doom; his characters must confront nothing less than the implacable pattern that fate has handed them. When they think they are most in control, changing the direction of their lives, they are actually exposing themselves to ruin. To be safe is contemptible, to dare disastrous. That Stone makes exciting fiction out of this depressing scenario is the hallmark of his mastery...
...that people are more important than money, and there's nothing wrong with that. But the implicit message of the remake is that the soft budget constraints of the 80s were nothing to be ashamed of; that conspicuous consumption is not only understandable, but admirable; that people who dare to voice concerns aboutextravagant spending are irrational, insensitivegoofballs who need to be taught a lesson. And inan insidious way, it's a pretty convincingmessage...
...Republican challenger Pat Buchanan, who has made five trips to the state since announcing his candidacy last month. Taunting Bush for breaking his famous no-new-taxes promise of 1988, Buchanan signed a written pledge to that effect and challenged the President to do the same. Asked about the dare, Bush brushed it aside with a facetious two-word dismissal: "What pledge...
Only one presidential candidate would dare to stump for votes at a convention of crystal-worshipping New Agers in Los Angeles. Prowling the stage with a hand mike like a stand-up crooner, Jerry Brown trumpets his current theme about the hopeless corruption of the political system, then offers his audience more specialized wares. He cites Buckminster Fuller's appeal for a fundamental "design change" of society. To loud applause from the assembled acolytes of acupuncture, psychoshamanism and touch therapy, he declares that any vast health-care reform "should also recognize alternative healing modalities." The custom-tailored sermon, delivered with...