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Except of course when I have apple juice. Thirteen years ago, when he was in fifth grade, my brother and some friends made an amateur movie called "Junkheap One" about a bunch of kids who build a space ship. My favorite character, the one I had provided the inspiration for, begged to leave outer space because of the glaring lack of apple juice. But as huge as apple juice was in the first five years of my life, I lost my way for over a decade and virtually abandoned the drink. But now, with the amber, foam topped glasses...
...Except of course when I have apple juice. Thirteen years ago, when he was in fifth grade, my brother and some friends made an amateur movie called "Junkheap One" about a bunch of kids who build a space ship. My favorite character, the one I had provided the inspiration for, begged to leave outer space because of the glaring lack of apple juice. But as huge as apple juice was in the first five years of my life, I lost my way for over a decade and virtually abandoned the drink. But now, with the amber, foam topped glasses...
PUMP UP THE VOLUME. By night, Mark Hunter is "Hard Harry," sole owner of a pirate radio station on which he endlessly, maniacally articulates sedition, sexual and social, to his schoolmates. His monologues very possibly constitute the most direct and original route into the junkheap of the adolescent mind that any moviemaker has yet found...
...standards, this pair should be politically extinct--confined to the junkheap of rusted-out racists like George Wallace and Lester Maddox. It was Thurmond, after all, who led the Dixiecrat walkout at the 1948 Democratic convention over Harry Truman's modest civil rights proposals and soon earned a reputation as the Senate's foremost segregationist. Television commentator Helms used race to boost him to the Senate...
...persistence, though a solid virtue, still has its limits. One can always allow politicians their endless pursuits; many are harmless, and it's simple enough to ignore them as they make their way to the electoral junkheap. But for political writers one faces a different matter. Literature, even such a frequently-derided form as popular political fiction, is an art--and any pattern of mindless repetition, of going through the motions for their own sake, is bound to do violence to the art, to turn it into a game where some people lose out. Contemporary political fiction suffers from this...