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Such are the scenes of morning in the scandal-scarred spring of 1987. Lamentation is in the air, and clay feet litter the ground. A relentless procession of forlorn faces assaults the nation's moral equanimity, characters linked in the public mind not by any connection between their diverse dubious deeds but by the fact that each in his or her own way has somehow seemed to betray the public trust: Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, Michael Deaver, Ivan Boesky, Gary Hart, Clayton Lonetree, Jim and Tammy Bakker, maybe Edwin Meese, perhaps even the President. Their transgressions -- some grievous and some...
...Francisco's estimated 5,000 to 10,000 homeless people. MacDonald claims the units would cost only about $800 apiece to build, and he has already identified spots for up to 500 of them on public land within a five-block radius of his office. City hall is dubious, naturally -- the Sleepers have no plumbing, and they are possible fire hazards -- but so far the two shelters are a hit. They have been occupied every night since MacDonald built them last month...
Meese, who will not be called until Phase 2, can expect rough handling over his sloppy initial investigation as well as his dubious legal advice to the President that it was proper to withhold notification of the Iran deals from Congress. But as to whether there was a cover-up, Maine Republican Senator William Cohen notes, "You cannot prove that Meese's ineptitude was calculated...
...SOMETHING is funny, it remains funny," Howie Mandel said in a recent interview. This dubious idea seems to be the philosophy behind Mandel's new movie, Walk Like a Man. This slapstick comedy repeats the same sight gags over and over, assuming that they will be funny each time. Actually, the movie is just one extended joke that is supposed to be funny for a full 90 minutes...
...unfortunate that the performance of the Radcliffe Pitches only served to reinforce a message which contributes to the infantilization of women. In their emphasis on dependence and protection, the lyrics of the songs chosen chould not be more incongruous with the message of "Take Back the Night." Such a dubious choice of songs, moreover, attests to the insidiousness of the socialization we all experience within a patriarchal culture: despite the Pitches' good intentions, they inadvertently "reproduced" the very messages which "Take Back the Night" was designed to counteract...