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...should upset us that the NBA looks towards the anthem as just an aspect of the entertainment. It should disturb us that the NBA is so concerned with image that the appearance of pride can be raised to the level of a duty integral to the professionalism of a professional athlete. Such concern for the superficial can only be seen as a denigration of the anthem itself--false observances of patriotism are far more damaging to our national pride and unity than any refusal to observe could possibly...
...task of reviewing The End of Alice (Scribner; 270 pages; $22), the third novel by A.M. Homes, a critic certainly feels the impulse to pull a Croce. Why actually wade through the book when we know from the publicity what we're in for: a story that demands to disturb and repulse, a portrait of a sick mind filled with sexual imagery repellent enough to make Robert Mapplethorpe photos look like Tommy Hilfiger ads by comparison...
...boarding schools -- the kind of felon who exists maddeningly often in pop culture and rarely ever in real life, where major crimes are not generally committed by people who sound as though they've been reading Roland Barthes between mutilations," says TIME's Ginia Bellafante. The story demands to disturb and repulse, a portrait of a sick mind filled with sexual imagery repellent enough to make Robert Mapplethorpe photos look like Tommy Hilfiger ads by comparison. But the problem with 'Alice' is not so much its barrage of appalling imagery as the author's insistence on using the imagery...
...sights he would see would shock and disturb him (they disturb us, anyway). Students dodging for cover from speeding taxis with only their backpacks as shields. Business people in nice clothes swearing at drivers who are trying to make the green light. Little Boston and Cambridge children who have had long practice staring down drivers until they turn around and go the wrong way down a one-way street...
...recent Republican assault against the direct student lending program makes me sick, and it should also disturb every student who has to borrow money to attend college. In fact, every taxpayer should be offended by the Republicans' latest mischief--it will waste billions of dollars. This wasted money will end up in the pockets of banks, guarantee agencies and other lending institutions that profit from federal government subsidies of student loans...