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Thirty years ago, Putnam dwelt on a few professors who felt they couldn't speak freely. He ignored the young activists locked up without trial in a Jackson jail. Today, D'Souza dwells on a few students and professors at a few colleges who feel they can't speak freely. He ignores the founding of a "White Students Association" at Temple University, the race riots at UMass, the fraternity t-shirts at Syracuse whose slogan is "Club faggots, not seals...
...crop of nostalgia shows, by contrast, a particular period is re- created precisely and dwelt on lovingly. In a sense, these shows are about the past -- a past, moreover, that most viewers personally remember (or, thanks to the media, think they remember). And though none of these eras are portrayed as totally idyllic, they give off a warm, comforting glow. Their problems seem more manageable when viewed in hindsight. We know how everything came...
...Spain!" drummer Louis Perez Jr. realized after a moment. "Wow!" Well, maybe they weren't quite so far away after all. Spiritually, Los Lobos has always dwelt midway between Los Angeles and Garcia Lorca, playing hard, dreaming darkly, finding a somber poetry on the sunny streets of the Mexican-American area the band called home. That's The Neighborhood...
Grave Line does not neglect the stately homes of more traditional Hollywood sight-sees. The hearse cruises past Jayne Mansfield's "pink palace," the one with the heart-shaped swimming pool, where the cantilevered comedian dwelt at the time she literally lost her head in a car crash. It decelerates outside Elizabeth Taylor's current home, which belonged to Frank Sinatra when his son was kidnaped and held for $240,000 ransom. It motors around the corner, past Ronald and Nancy Reagan's retirement villa. The original address was 666 St. Cloud Street, but because 666 is the number...
...campaign looked so negative because nofundamental issues were dividing the country,"Dionne said. "So little seemed at stake in thewar, so people dwelt on the methods of warfare...