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...about her image and ever protective of her shelf life. She made millions from going too far; it's just that for a while she went too too far. Now it is time for her to step back and appraise -- what else? -- herself. The result is Girlie Show, an essay in retro show biz. As another star with some mileage on her said in Sunset Blvd., ''Not a comeback, a return.'' The show is a return to the womb of popular culture: a calculated peek at American innocence. The proscenium stage is fronted with red drapery suitable for a Louisiana...
...Speculation In his essay "Oil Follies," Michael Kinsley notes that if President George W. Bush "had used the political gift certificate he was granted on Sept. 11, 2002," he could have "imposed a $1.50-per-gal. (39¢-per-L) 'War on Terror' tax ... People would have screamed with pain, then started adjusting. Demand would have gone down, and today gas would probably be cheaper" [July 7]. How very clever. But Kinsley had a TIME pulpit in 2001. Why didn't he propose this great idea then? How easy it is to be clever in retrospect - though Kinsley seems less than...
...found it ironic and a little irritating that Kinsley's essay had quite a bit of hindsight. In the same issue, there is a quote from John F. Kennedy, "Those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future." So I urge Kinsley, an obviously intelligent man, to tell us what it is we don't know - but should - about where we're headed. Steve Walsh, Atlanta...
...book's last essay, "God owes us an apology," you question the idea of God as both omnipotent and all-good...
...draw connections in one essay between the way evangelical churches in the United States operate and the way Hamas does. Could you talk a little bit about that...