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...informative, failed to inform me of any specifically offensive features of this alleged poster. While it may be inappropriate for "well-known hate groups" to poster on our campus, and while I have few sympathies for "militant activists," white or otherwise, and although these "plain, white posters" were in flagrant violation of University postering guidelines, there is nothing inherently outrageous in the concept "white unity" as your headline seems to imply...
...then, Communist filmmakers tried entertaining the masses with what the official press derisively called "the most flagrant offspring of the capitalist pleasure industry": musical comedies. East Side Story is the history of that glorious, doomed attempt to create an all-singing, all-dancing genre within the unsmiling dictates of socialist realism...
...assertion in the July 2 review of Face/Off that there was an atomosphere of surrealism throughout, contributes to the flagrant misuse of the word "surrealism" to mean anything bizasrre, strange or unusal, and enforcers of consensus reality, determined to pull the noose they have slipped around the throat of the imagination ever tighter, make ever stricter what can be defined as "normal." This debasement is symptomatic of the scheme to murder interest in authentic surrealism through the promotion of its counterfeits...
...Murdoch reportedly would purchase a 30% share of IFE (which has been valued at as much as $1.5 billion), paying for it with preferred stock in News Corp. That would make Robertson a sizable shareholder in a media giant that, even without the Bundys, is one of the most flagrant purveyors of sex (Melrose Place), violence (The X-Files) and ill-mannered humor (The Simpsons) on television...
Inevitably, of course, there are abuses, and flagrant ones are prosecuted. Sippe Schat, a doctor from northern Friesland, goes on trial later this month for the alleged murder of a 72-year-old cancer patient who had seemed in good spirits just before she died in a nursing home. According to prosecutors, Schat simply gave her a lethal shot of insulin without consulting anyone and left her to die alone, allegedly telling a nurse as he left, "If she hasn't died by 7 a.m. tomorrow, give me a call...