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...consumes us much more than we do it. Lovers woo one another on screens, interface with friends, cite TV sets as corespondents in divorce trials. And the children who have grown up goggle-eyed around the electric altar cannot believe that anything is real unless it comes with a laugh track: they organize their emotions around commercial breaks and hope to heal their sorrows with a PAUSE button. Watching their parents fight, they sit back and wait in silence for the credits. History for them means syndication; ancient history, the original version of The Brady Bunch...
Lively body skimmers now come in a limitless variety. Tigers and leopards have lent their spots, the venerable house of Hermes has adapted one of its signature rope prints, and designer Betsey Johnson, always on the lookout for a laugh, has fashioned a lifelike tattoo pattern. "The '60s were an inspirational bounce-off point," she notes, "short, modern, carefree, futuristic...
...special pleading for gays; it is about any group of people who might get blindsided by a plague. Thanks to a terrific ensemble cast (including, in addition to the above, Dermot Mulroney, Mary-Louise Parker and Patrick Cassidy), these people are quirky, compassionate, plenty human. You are encouraged to laugh along with this wonderfully funny and, of course, heartbreaking picture. It's O.K. to laugh...
...sitcoms also menaced by a crime wave that resembles New York City during a blackout? In this single week, there was an interracial team of angry drug dealers on A Different World, a psychotic killer rudely intruding on an office camping trip on Perfect Strangers, and that laugh riot -- a berserk gun-wielding busboy -- on Sugar and Spice. Even when Suzanne and Julia of Designing Women jetted off on vacation to Japan, probably the world's safest nation, their luggage was promptly stolen in Tokyo's Narita Airport. The thieves, of course, belonged to a criminal class that now exists...
...there room for subtlety and gentility in a culture overrun by expressions of gross intolerance? And what impact will this culture have on the first generation to grow up within it? Does this stuff have artistic merit? Is it tonic or toxic? Can we dance to it or comfortably laugh at it? Should we march against it or just sit back and enjoy...