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...television network news more and more resembles the jumpy, jazzy pace of a soft-drink commercial, with all sorts of whirling graphics to illustrate the duller facts, news directors may fear that a moment of reflecting on news might drive the viewers away. This is one more example of the news business deferring to show business...
BETWEEN THESE HIGH action scenes are a few in which we witness the author free associating. After some fast-paced violence, nothing could be duller than the author explaining his principles...
...irreverence that characterized earlier editions. The Bill James who once said. "Reitz, as you probably know, is slower than a lot of dead people" and tagged Bob Bailor a "Futility Player" in his player evaluations has grown a little older and little wiser--and maybe a bit duller...
Besides, is there anything duller than democracy? Where is the pageantry, the fanfare, the inspiring queen, the court intrigue? We have made a cult of monotony, a national religion of similitude: same duties, same opportunities, same rights, same made from. TV ideas. Picture a coronation procession on Pennsylvania Ave., a blast of trumpets for the king, hautboys off-stage, Reagan Rex on a fine Arab charger with Queen Nancy by his side, and the classical monuments of Washington D.C. providing the perfect setting for majesty. All the royalty of Europe would be there, having loaned their jewelry to the tenderfoot...
Kunen uses the same autobiographical form that Bailey and Dershowitz do, but can't replicate the excitement and force of argument of his more senior colleagues. Kunen's book is dull, probably duller than most of the corporate contracts Law School grads do write--simply because his two and a half years working in the Washington courts were particularly dull. A street punk arrested for smoking on a bus inherently carries less drama than a Claus von Bulow on trial for murder. A Dershowitz arguing constitutional law before the Supreme Court is naturally more interesting than this rookie public defender...