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Study after study has shown the desensitizing effect that visual violence has. It came home to me in a different way. Watching the news with my dad, a bloody scene accompanied a story on Rwanda. Out of the corner of my eye I saw him cringe...
Bloom's view of literature as a ceaseless agon between challengers and titleholders is interesting and, in some instances, true. Virgil obviously had an eye on Homer when he set out to write The Aeneid, just as Dante and Milton had Virgil in their sights when they embarked upon The Divine Comedy and Paradise Lost. But Bloom cannot prove, on aesthetic or any other grounds, that all the writers he deems great shared the motives he ascribes to them. By the time he gets to a discussion of Emily Dickinson's poetry, he has grown so vexed at the absence...
Newt Gingrich has an eye for weakness, and when he spots it, he zooms straight in. Last week the House minority whip pounced on a tattered, Democratic- sponsored lobbying reform bill that was limping toward passage. He came in not for a kill, only to place a wound -- perhaps simply for pride of marksmanship. Straightening his Scotch tartan tie, the Congressman from Georgia upended his schedule, rushed from his second-floor office, stepped onto the House floor and delivered a five-minute, late-afternoon blast. He aimed at one minor and carefully buried clause, which he decried as "designed...
...film's most disingenuous line. The bigwigs may have escaped punishment, but the scandals rocked TV as nothing before or since: quiz shows vanished from the air, ethical standards were drastically tightened (CBS President Frank Stanton even proposed banning canned laughter), and the industry suffered a black eye that took decades to heal. "Get television" is exactly what Goodwin and his colleagues did. Quiz Show does too; it just doesn't have the grace to admit...
...major bill that givesthe FBI power to continue surveillance on new phone networks was approved lateFriday night, but online services will largely be spared from the government'swatchful eye. The Digital Telephony Bill -- in the Senate it's S2375, in theHouse HR4922 -- forces telephone companies to make any new networks they develop"wiretap ready" for the FBI; Congress has set aside $500 million over four yearsto reimburse the corporations for compliance. However, an earlier draft of thelegislation was changed so that online bulletin board services such as AmericaOnline have been excluded from the provisions. And restrictions on releasingrecords regarding transactions...