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...gone. The debate has been imprecise, subjective -and inevitable. It reaches far beyond the campaign. The turmoil of the 1960s and early '70s left a corrosive residue of apathy and skepticism that has eaten away at all major institutions. A report issued in September by the Public Agenda Foundation noted that trust in Government declined from 76% in 1964 to 33% today; that 83% of American voters say they "do not trust those in positions of leadership as much as they used to"; that confidence in Congress, the Supreme Court, business, college presidents, the military, doctors and lawyers dropped...
With the fearlessness of one who has eaten a "Beat the House" breakfast at Tommy's Lunch, here are this week's winners, er, picks...
...very least, that they must see it to find out. King of Hearts isn't actually a bad film--you wouldn't actually turn it off the late late show or walk out on it as the second half of a double bill unless you'd eaten too much popcorn--but it has no conspicuous merits that could justify its return...
From its rivers, lakes and offshore waters, Southerners have developed a piscine cuisine of staggering diversity. Snapper and pompano are the aristocrats of fishdom. The Gulf Coast's pearly shrimp, eaten raw or smothered in the fiery remoulade sauce of a New Orleans restaurant, are as memorable as Proustian madeleines. No other cuisine in the world has so amply shared or sherried a dish like Southern crawfish bisque. Inland, Southern hams and bacons are unrivaled in the Western world...
...China's huge agricultural communes obviously indicate. Solomon points out that food images still dominate the way the Chinese formulate their political concerns. In Chinese the verb to suffer literally means to eat bitterness. The Chinese customarily talk about conflict in terms of "consuming enemies" or "being eaten" by them. Recently Mao himself described the temptations of bourgeois life as "sugarcoated bullets," more dangerous to the proletarian purity of the Chinese revolution than the lead bullets of the class enemy...