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Weeks theorizes that U.S. prosperity and leisure time in the postwar period have resulted in a rebirth of homegrown oddballitry. He found that American eccentrics are just as humorous as their British peers, but generally kinder and less sarcastic. The Americans seemed to rely more on intuition and chutzpah than logic or rationality. Thanks to the American legacy of political rebelliousness, Weeks says, U.S.-bred eccentrics tend to hold more radical views than their better-born British brethren. "Eccentricity flourishes where there is freedom of expression," he says. "You won't find eccentrics tolerated in repressive regimes or countries where...
...variations, incredibly enough, one with banana and nuts. Lender's has just introduced Big 'n Crusty, 50% larger than its regular product and looking like a sort of dimpled Superdome modeled in dough. Brothers Murray and Marvin Lender have recently expanded their Connecticut-based chain of bagel restaurants, S. Kinder (a play on the Yiddish Ess, Kinder ((Eat, children))), into Manhattan, where they offer a blueberry-studded bagel. Says Murray Lender, son of the company's founder: "The Brooklyn traditionalist would probably break out in hives at the mention of a blueberry bagel...
...movie is sleeker, cannier, luckier -- and more disturbing. No wonder feminists have cried foul over Fatal Attraction: Alex is the '80s career woman as homicidal vamp. Says Marsha Kinder, a film professor at the University of Southern California: "In this film, it is not sexual repression that causes psychosis. It is sexual liberation. For men, Alex's sexuality is a succubus; it saps a man's strength. Fatal Attraction is also about how men fear women. Because in this movie women have the power, positively and negatively. When Alex hears Dan threaten her, she doesn't take it seriously...
...spate of good-women, bad-men advice books indicate that womenare adopting a "new sexism," according to California Educator Warren Farrell, author of last year's Why Men Are the Way They Are and one of the first male board members of the National Organization for Women. Charges Melvyn Kinder, a Los Angeles psychologist and author: "If there is a growing lack of communication between the sexes, it is precisely because of books like Hite...
Though 65 Senators voted to confirm Rehnquist, there were 33 nays, the most ever for a successful court appointee. The Senate was kinder to U.S. Appeals Court Judge Antonin Scalia, voting 98 to 0 to approve his nomination as Associate Justice...