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...Fluff abounds: "A prior knowledge of psychoanalysis is not a prerequisite, but a lively curiosity and willingness to try out some different ways of thinking about human conflict and conflict within families are quite important." Has a "lively curiosity" requirement ever scared a student away from a course? Which courses of not value open-mindedness in their students...
...their modern incarnation, these mighty messengers and fearless soldiers have been reduced to bite-size beings, easily digested. The terrifying cherubim have become Kewpie-doll cherubs. For those who choke too easily on God and his rules, theologians observe, angels are the handy compromise, all fluff and meringue, kind, nonjudgmental. And they are available to everyone, like aspirin. "Each of us has a guardian angel," declares Eileen Freeman, who publishes a bimonthly newsletter called AngelWatch from her home in Mountainside, New Jersey. "They're nonthreatening, wise and loving beings. They offer help whether...
Somehow, Fuente Ovejuna loses the serious dramatic atmosphere with which it began. Countless details, each insignificant in itself, conspire to undermine the production's credibility. The secondary sets look flimsy and unrealistic. The actors obviously fluff their lines. The lighting crew blunders, keeping the audience in the dark for a minute after the curtain calls. The director embellishes the wedding and decapitation scenes with radically inappropriate music and choreography. Gomez's severed head screams fake. The technical crew fails to distinguish between night and day, keeping the action in a perpetual half-light that isn't eerie so much...
...with most traditional lectures. I don't quite understand why we persist with this archaic format where professors just read the same lecture notes they've read for years, changing them a little every now and then. Why is it so unthinkable to do away with the speech and fluff that goes into a fifty minute lecture...
...about Clinton's "change" rhetoric? The president's plan rings of Carter liberalism, and is reminiscent of the mistakes that cost George Bush an election. Sure, Clinton offers some nifty little items, like summer jobs and highway construction, that should stimulate short term growth. But that's short term fluff, not growth. It boils down to more government spending. Not much change there...