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...bills dismantling protection of air and water simply right-wing truculence? If not, are they badly aimed populism? The answer is not deeply buried: corporate America, generous with PAC contributions, is the clear and highly appreciative beneficiary. One spitball of a bill, written for Republican Congressman Slade Gorton of Washington by lawyers for logging, mining, grazing and utility corporations, would junk large sections of the Endangered Species Act. Gorton told the New York Times that he did not consult environmentalists about the bill because "I already know what their views...
...people I'm staying with are really generous and encouraging, " he added...
Wilder's camera is generous to Swanson, playing with the copious material she gives him to create confusion between light and shadow, cinema and life. The camera chills, not only with beautiful photography, but with inspired editing which creates a dialogue of images, blending forms from one scene subtly into another...
With their generous literary gifts, Sheed and West elevate an often dreary, self-absorbed genre. They are also above-average grousers. West on medical bureaucracies: "How many tyrannical oafs does a hospital need before it dwindles into incorrigible uselessness?" Sheed on members of Alcoholics Anonymous: "People who talk in bumper stickers and have only one mood." It's a good sign. The patients are sitting up and taking umbrage...
...conservative apologists, on the other hand, are guilty of whitewashing Robertson's sins in the name of their own Rightist agenda. It is one thing to point out that Robertson is not an anti-Semite plain and simple, and is a generous supporter of the State of Israel. It is another thing altogether to assume that his pro-Israel sentiments somehow excuse his anti-Semitic excesses...