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...price: living in front of cameras that catch their every tantrum, embarrassment and moral lapse. TV and media critics are conditioned to believe that once people start entertaining themselves by spying on others, we are just scant moments away from grandma porn and ABC's Monday Night Stoning. (You could base a drinking game on how often the Colosseum, Network and Orwell come up in discussions of VTV.) Stuart Fischoff, professor of media psychology at California State University, Los Angeles, cheerfully admits to enjoying Survivor but adds, "The downside that does concern me is the need to get more excessive...
...finagle this system. Maybe you would move to a part of Switzerland that is soft on Montenegrins. If you had one of those Yugoslav names with a paucity of vowels, you might sprinkle in a few, and list your hobbies as boccie playing and fine-tuning your grandma's lasagna recipe. Or maybe, in order to reassure voters that you're harmless because culturally you're already Swiss, you could list your hobbies as eating heavy food, reminding others to be punctual and responding to attempts at humor by frowning and saying, "Is that meant to be funny, or what...
...ambivalence is painfully familiar to Amy Ladd, former director of a sick-child facility in Terre Haute, Ind., that closed because its sponsoring hospital needed to cut costs. "Everybody screams for sick-child care, but they absolutely won't touch it unless they have to--and then only if Grandma can't do it and Mommy and Daddy can't change their schedules and the baby-sitter is not available. Parents just prefer to stay home...
...have no luck. Cult members lose their ability to think rationally--an impediment that usually recedes about the time disaster joins the ranks. Way too late. Make no mistake: brainwashed tech-stock lovers are in the same mess, only nobody is trying to talk sense into them. Friends, and Grandma too, have all set up quarters in the same compound...
...grabs a card from the shoe. It's a four, giving him 20. Everyone's lost a lot of money now, including my new grandmother, and it's all my fault. "Fucking cocksucker. You took his bust card. What the fuck did you do that for?" asks Grandma. She proceeds to ask me a number of other pointed questions regarding my ancestry and sexual preferences. I am, justifiably I think, a bit embarrassed. Everyone glares at me. Granny and two Asian gentlemen get up and leave. They're replaced by a guy who looks like Arthur Miller and another...