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...part because of their advanced age. But if capital punishment is abandoned, it may make sense, politically and emotionally, to permit the public some vengeful satisfaction. Life without parole is unimaginably harsh. But it would be a way occasionally to formalize the revulsion at Charles Manson and his ilk. As it is, Manson will be eligible for parole...
...Irrational Inquirer are scheduled to reach newsstands this week, and except for the price, $2, vs. 65? for the Enquirer, the takeoff is all but indistinguishable from the original. Indeed, that may be the jape's major flaw. Even regular readers of the Enquirer and its ilk may err in guessing which of the following stories comes from the spoof and which from the "real" tabloids: - The Chinese Communist government is sabotaging the U.S.-by spreading herpes. - John Lennon speaks daily from beyond the grave to his widow Yoko...
...testing" characters in the equivalent of cultural revolutions; in his vision of the poet as legislator and the legislator as unsung poet. In the last essay of the book. "Gesturing with Materials," he sees in revolutionary political movements an analogue to the "action painting" of Jackson Pollock and his ilk, who record their moments of artistry not as aesthetic phenomena but as something, anything, "never before seen...
Today, however, with Reaganomics foundering, Democratic electoral prospects are brighter than anyone believed possible just a few months ago. Yet their national campaign effort is virtually nonexistent. The men with the ignition keys to the party machinery, the Kennedys, the Mondales and their ilk continue to pour forth the great platitudes of the old party line...
...profiles Ahmet Ertegun, founder and president of Atlantic Records, one of the truly powerful musical taste-makers in rock and R&B, and a quintessentially beautiful person. Trow does a capable job of portraying Ertegun and his set and depicting the rise of someone of Ertegun's entrepreneurial ilk. But Trow falls short when he ladles the commentary and the terminology of the first essay onto Ertegun and company. Undoubtedly, the ethic of agreement and the consequent problems it creates have their influence in the fast world of the music industry and the jet set. But there are other things...