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...That really did it." Like many small-town Midwesterners, Seman is so polite she seems awkward when angry. "Look how upset I am," she says, visibly quaking. Catching her breath, she fires one last salvo: "Bush had four years, and now he talks about change? Hah! Just how dumb does he think...
...last week's Nielsens. Hartman plays a former hooker who shares her pad with a lawyer (Jennifer Beals -- remember Flashdance?), an actress (Drew Barrymore -- remember E.T.?) and the actress's scheming sister (Tuesday Knight -- remember silly stage names?). Director Joel Schumacher launched the series with a lot of dumb style; it's just the sort of + flashy bauble that could bring prime-time soaps back into fashion...
...values, if worth anything, must be more deeply embedded in the culture than the slogans of transient politicians. A Memphis construction company owner named J.D. Walker Jr. watched the Republican Convention last week and said in some disgust: "We want President Bush to know the American citizenry is not dumb. Don't keep telling us things will get better if we let you dictate how to run our personal lives. In my list of important things about this campaign, family values is fourth. Just ahead of that at No. 3 is counting all the sand on all the beaches...
...woke up and realized I liked that song by the Jets called "Rocket to You." I was ashamed; it was a corny, schlocky and dumb song about a guy who doesn't know how to fix appliances. It was all over the top-40 stations. It had a ridiculous rap segment ("Don't call me when your toaster won't pop up, don't call me just to cut your lawn") and for some reason I thought it was funky as hell. My taste had plummeted through the floor...
...love "Abbaesque," the new corny, scholocky, blissfully dumb EP by Erasure, and I am mortified. When my sister finds out, she will laugh at me. "Erasure sucks," she'll tell me, and she'll be right. Their sound is flat, canned and corporate. They're just a happy Depeche Mode, and what did the members of DM ever really have going for them except stylish gloom? I thought I'd long outgrown Erasure's typical, cloying, techno sound. And "ABBA-esque" is a skimpy, derivative album consisting of four covers of ABBA songs...