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Personally, I was a vehement pop music hater in high school. My conception of good music included Dave Matthews Band, alternative rock, ska-punk and little else. (Alright, so I did always have an 80s fetish). I didn't listen to much besides that, resulting in constant radio-control battles in the car with my rap-loving younger brother. Watching TRL was like being assaulted by singing Teletubbies. I couldn't tell N'SYNC and the Backstreet Boys apart, in pictures or on the radio...
...punk with the resourceful instincts of a statesman (see the Cuban missile crisis or the civil rights struggle in the South), the hawk and the dove, the liberal and the conservative, the plunger and the temporizer, the youthful McCarthyite, the knight of the New Age, the scowlingly obsessive hater (Castro, Hoffa) who was also a friend of animals, children and poets...
What's more, you don't have to be a Clinton hater to believe there are problems with how the test ban was constructed in the first place. For one thing, it had no cutoff date. Even some former Clinton Administration officials fear there is no way to ensure the effectiveness of U.S. weapons forever without testing them occasionally. A computer program that would monitor weapons in lieu of testing isn't ready, though treaty supporters argue that future Presidents could have pulled out of the treaty if the technology proved faulty...
Needless to say, this is film about many things. Mostly, it is about a year in the life of Lester Burnham--father, neighbor, self-hater. Because Lester is played by Kevin Spacey, we can see embers glowing behind his eyes even in the darkly comic early stages of the film when he has hit rock bottom: disdained by his harpy wife (Annette Bening), despised by his daughter (lovely, sad-faced Thora Birch) and distant from his own passions. The highlight of his day, Spacey tells us, is a quiet masturbation session in the shower. "It's all downhill from there...
...brother, you're thinking, another moralistic purist and hater. I prefer the term "mainstreamly challenged," thank...