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...absence, a newly aggressive Forbes homed in on Bush's policies. "In nearly all of his answers," says TIME Washington correspondent John Dickerson, "Steve Forbes took Bush to task on specific policy issues. Forbes has hinted at his disagreements with Bush, but last night was a direct and frontal assault from Forbes, and it gives us a sense of the kind of battle we'll see between these two in Iowa." And far from enjoying his home-court advantage, Arizona senator McCain looked vaguely uneasy in the bright lights - perhaps still nursing his wounds from Arizona governor Jane Hull...
Frankly, however, holding the line at sacred representations and symbols of faith strikes me as tenable. Duchamp's artwork and Mapplethorpe's photography are not so much frontal attacks on another's worldview as independent assertions of other, potentially conflicting visions. Where conflicts of such a nature arise, Aristotle's advice to rely on democracy as the distiller of wisdom greater than that possessed by any single individual might perhaps be heeded. But democracy should not be able to marshal public funding in those cases of work either intended to, or reasonably construed as, desecrating the symbolic moorings of another...
...nominated for an Emmy in its second season, Starr's Sex and the City (HBO, Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T.) follows sex columnist Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker, also an Emmy nominee) and the three over-30 professional friends who provide her material. The show has gained notice for its frontal nudity, lewd puns and sex moves that Mike and Carol Brady would never have contemplated. But really, Sex and the City is groundbreaking because it's about the mundaneness of sex--to fake or not to fake, how to coach a man in bed. Even the sex scenes are comic...
With Eyes Wide Shut, the corpse sits up, erect again. If the film is a hit, it will help Hollywood remember what makes us tick, and tingle, and hurt, and come back for more. We might even get the full-frontal revelation of two souls abrading in the night...
Essentially, Hallmark is abandoning the high ground of prose and pictures for a frontal assault. Although the company still sells premium-priced (about $5) cards in its own shops and franchised outlets, the real battle has shifted to the mass-market stores, such as supermarkets and discounters. There the cardmakers are left slugging it out over exclusive contracts for coveted shelf space. The aggressive deals cut by retailers, combined with slowing sales volume, have put the squeeze on profits...