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...gunless gunboat, its Vietnamese colors set off against a red gob of sun. In the bar was flat, skunky-tasting beer that had sat in the heat for a year, though the hapless representative of San Miguel, a Filipino brewery, insisted that he had accompanied 70,000 fresh cases into the country; they just got away from him, is all. An Australian sportswear manufacturer brought $20,000 worth of clothes to Danang, but they got away from him too. The host country kept on smiling, then stole my eyeglasses. ''We smile because we are happy to see you,'' a waif...
...turns passionate and sullen, angry at the world in general and grownups in particular, certain, above all, that they were uncompromised, pure. In the mid-'70s, as prosperity finally ebbed and a generalized post-Vietnam enervation set in, much of rock turned merely slick. But along came a fresh cohort of bratty youngsters convinced of their own exceptional purity, and so a dozen years after the rock-'n'-roll youthquake, punk music appeared -- crude, youthful, exuberant, sullenly anarchic, objectionable to grownups. In the late '80s, as go-go prosperity ebbed and post-Reagan enervation set in, yet another...
...with it. "We rip off everyone equally," says Shannon Hoon, lead singer of Blind Melon, which has sold more than 1 million copies of its first album this year. The trick is to sample riffs from somebody who's so long gone that the modern repetition of it sounds fresh and new. Even the theatrical group Kiss -- whose members wore demonic makeup onstage -- is cited as an influence by today's alternative rockers. "I had the worst crush on the God of Thunder, (Kiss bassist) Gene Simmons," says Kat Bjelland, lead singer for the punkette group Babes in Toyland. "They...
...Seeing it is thus a good deed, for the selfless saints of film preservation and for the part of any moviegoer open to a fresh experience from an old film. So if you're in the vicinity and can't get into The Dark Knight, try Mackenzie's film; it has twice the angst at half the running time. And next week, if it' s a choice between The X Files and The Exiles, take a chance on the little...
There is, of course, an argument for experience, especially when the issues are complex and the special interests cunning. House Speaker Tip O'Neill used to grumble about the "bed wetters," the fresh-faced Democrats who hadn't been around long enough to know how to resist pressure from the Reagan White House. There's a reason roughly half the people who write the laws have law degrees. But surely there's value in having some teachers as legislators when No Child Left Behind is on the table, or some doctors and nurses on the committees dissecting health-care proposals...