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...that the nation’s politicians have hopped onto the banning-obscenity bandwagon (will anyone think of the children!), Congress will outlaw redneck jokes from television and radio because they “mess with ma kin...
...Jews; Spielberg's, which won the Best Picture Oscar and six others in 1994, dramatizes the toxic effects of that hatred, and the ability of one man--the gentile factory owner Oskar Schindler--to save 1,200 Jews in Poland during the Nazi Occupation. The two movies are kin, though, as serious, violent historical dramas made against great odds--and as personal testaments that, their directors have said, transformed them as artists and men. On the new DVD of Schindler's List (Universal Video; $26.98), Spielberg declares, "It changed the course of my life...
...rumble started anew when Richard Fleming, a cardiologist in Omaha, Neb., who opposes the Atkins regimen, somehow got the New York City medical examiner's office to send him Atkins' confidential medical report. Such reports are meant to be given only to the next of kin or a physician who has treated the patient. Fleming, who was neither, handed the records to a pro-vegetarian group called the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an organization that opposes the meat-loving Atkins movement so vehemently it has a website called atkins diet alert.org The committee then sent the medical examiner...
...like the U.S. Constitution, for it seems likely that the Iraqi document will recognize a special place for Islam in national life. Iraq will have modern state institutions, but they will not have a monopoly of legitimacy. For years, loyalty to the state will coexist with that owed to kin and tribe...
...must mention, just in passing, another of cigarettes' metaphorical potencies. "Smo-kin'!" exclaims Jim Carrey's frenetic alter ego in "The Mask"; and we know he is referring to a different -king. Smoking is, at heart, oral gratification. There is, shall we say, a certain sexual implication in putting our lips around a long, thin object, ingesting its essence into the mouth, perhaps swallowing it, then expelling it. Put this way, the act of smoking is, literally, a blow job. And the ritual "smoke after sex" - is this not the reward for all the exertion of coupling? For some smokers...