Word: failings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This will be frustrating to Democrats. They have sought consolation in the thought that Republicans, having harnessed the new populism to their own ambitions, might now, in turn, become its victims. Republicans are now the political establishment. And when they fail to deliver the impossible combination platters that the new populism seems to demand-lower taxes and a balanced budget without any cuts in middle-class benefit checks, guaranteed health care without any limits on choice, superpower status without any risk of American blood or treasure-the populist conflagration will swallow them up too. But will that delicious moment arrive...
...portrait of the "almost socially autistic" artist and his equally strange family. Crumb's fears, particularly of women, whom Crumb feels are so inaccessible "they won't even let me draw them," are chronicled here, as well as the frustration shown in comics with titles like "Words fail me (Pictures Aren't Much Better)." Of Crumb's work Corliss says "With care and wit, he draws his own demons and goddesses. One thing he never draws is conclusions. That is for the viewer to do, and be horrified or edified."MONEYWATCH...
...Road trips are universally acknowledged to be a tricky subject, if only by virtue of their simple formula. It's far too easy to write a boring, pretentious road trip story. Coupland's road stories aren't particularly pretentious. But, like much of the writing of his generation, they fail to go anywhere, literally or figuratively...
...council itself will vote on direct elections at next week's meeting. If members fail to pass the bill calling for direct elections, the question will be put to the students along with a referendum on a new school mascot...
Only on Neil Young's "Don't Let It Bring You Down" does Lennox's voice somewhat fail her. This track is one of the album's weakest, and things aren't helped by overdone instrumentation. Lennox's version just doesn't hold up next to the original...