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...author may realize what a jerk Fielding Pierce really is, but it is difficult to tell, since the snake has all the lines. Further muddying the issue of whether a character like this should be a Congressman is the reappearance of Sarah Williams, who, dead or alive, certainly comes to haunt the candidate. Spencer, 40, struggles with an ambitious question: How can people work for good in a world of evil? Unfortunately, with friends like Fielding and Sarah, the causes of righteousness and coherent narratives seem curiously irrelevant...
Moreover, the argument that the disruptive protesters offered in defence of their actions, while not convincing, raises an important point about the incident that can not simply be ignored amid knee-jerk appeals to the First Ammendment. The Contras are murderers, guilty of gross crimes against humanity. Their record of atrocities--usually against unarmed civilians--has been well documented by a number of independent groups. And the Conservative Club's speaker last week was not just another apologist for these thugs, but actually claimed to be one of them. His legal rights must be weighed against the evil that...
...omission. Errors of inclusion, an entirely different topic, would require about twice as much disscussion. For example, can anyone tell me why Ed Harris was nominated for his performance as Patsy Cline's husband Charlie Dick in Sweet Dreams? How hard can it be to act like a boozing jerk for two and a half hours...
...paper topic might run as follows: "Is it more just to protect 'freedom of expression' for pornographers, or to legislate limits on pornography and thereby reduce the supposedly related ills of teenage pregnancy, rape, child molestation, etc.?" Sadly, the grapevine indicates that students responded to the question with knee-jerk proclamations defending the sanctity of 'freedom of expression...
...wonders whether there are any real limitations, whether fantasy sometimes infringes a bit much on reality. Perhaps even the owners sometimes allow this distinction to blur. Says Rudolf: "At least two or three times a month someone will take his clothes off on a platform and maybe jerk off. But I'm not going to interrupt an act in the middle. It's art on stage. And that's untouchable...