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...people had never danced before so wespent hours on the choreography and looking atvideos," said Grace T. Wang '93, one of themodels...
...better that they be publicly despised or celebrated? The choice is not really between a society of vice or virtue -- we will never have the latter. The choice is between a society of hypocrisy or cynicism. The cynic does not admit to doing wrong. The hypocrite has the saving grace of paying homage to virtue by at least publicly acknowledging its sovereignty. "Any one may yield to temptation," wrote William Hazlitt, "and yet feel a sincere love and aspiration after virtue: but he who maintains vice in theory, has not even the conception or capacity for virtue in his mind...
There are several sports in which the price of a ticket buys a knot in the stomach: car racing, bull-fighting, high-diving. No one wants it to happen, but everyone knows it might. And that is why we watch. You admire the skill and the grace, but you can't avoid the fact that you are paying to watch people risk their lives. He makes a living facing danger for your entertainment...
...disappearing, we don't know what to do about nuclear waste. Should we try to distract ourselves and watch a little television?" She and husband Nigel (Alvin Epstein) turn on the television, only to find a scorching intensification of their worries in the coarse, vulgar, and manipulative personalities who grace their...
...behalf of the American people, playing first Inquisitor, then Fairy Godmother in the space of a segment. There are other clergy: the Archpriestess Diane Sawyer, the Archpriestess Oprah Winfrey. Credible Cardinal of High Policy and Emergency Confessions (" . . . better come clean, call Nightline") is Ted Koppel. Then there is His Grace Phil Donahue, the barking, mike-ready Bishop of Prurience, whose vestment for one of his shows was actually a dress...