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When General Education courses were created in 1946, faculty members expected the curriculum to eventually become mandatory for all students. But nowadays the only Gen Ed class everyone takes is Gen Ed 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection," taught by Agee Professor of Social Ethics Robert Coles '50 and widely considered one of Harvard's easiest classes...
Melrose, centered around the booth-tanned inhabitants of a Los Angeles apartment complex, debuted in 1992 as an unconvincing thirtysomething for Gen Xers. When it returned the following season it was something else altogether, a dumb-brilliant parody of the soap universe, a show in which women dressed for work as though life were a continual audition for the Howard Stern Show. Heather Locklear was now entrenched as a nasty, libidinal Leona Helmsley-ish landlady in the making, while Sydney the hooker-stripper was chasing her sister Jane's amoral husband Michael...
...where they generally work very hard at being hip, sometimes too hard. A perfect example is the new Squirt TV, a talk show picked up from public access. The host is a detached 17-year-old, Jake Fogelnest, who is as committed to ironically appreciating the 1970s as any Gen X Bandstand fan despite the fact that he became sentient only around 1981. The question for the target audience for these two shows is: Do you want your ironic appreciation of the 1970s straight up or painfully contrived...
...years ago. An alternately droll and disturbing work about mother-son incest, it became a cult hit. His new film, Flirting with Disaster, establishes Russell as a unique comic voice. The movie boasts a name cast that includes Alda, Lily Tomlin and Mary Tyler Moore, as well as such Gen-X faves as Patricia Arquette and Ben Stiller. Oh, and dyed-in-the-wool George Segal fans will have a reason to go to the movies again...
Gingrich, for example, said retired gen. Colin L. Powell was a top prospect, ignoring daily protests from Buchanan because Powell supports abortion rights. Gingrich also cited Michigan Gov. John Engler and California Attorney General Dan Lungren as "perfect examples of the kind of people who I think would be terrific...