Word: loudnesses
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...were a few glitches: Bush looked goofy when he mugged for the cameras with the Philadelphia Phillies mascot, and it turned out that the hospital patient Bush spoke to didn?t have any hard luck stories to tell about his HMO. But even though the gaffes, the message was loud and clear: Bush is a warm, huggable president...
...same, American culture moves so readily to legitimize the latest enthusiasms of mass taste--snowboarding! game shows! Irish step dancing!--that it always seems in danger of overwhelming art that demands quieter attention. The devilishly effective machinery of American pop culture turns our attention constantly to whatever is loud, vivid, swaggering...
...great art is born all the time out of what is loud, vivid and swaggering, or even conventional and sentimental--in short, out of the primordial ooze of low culture. Consider the modern novel. In the hands of a master like Philip Roth, it can register the smallest vibrations of the interior life or the broadest convulsions of the wider world. But when it emerged as an art form in the 18th century--springing from a flux of cheap pamphlets, folktales, adventurers' memoirs and religious allegories--it was widely despised as philistine trash, a plaything for an undiscriminating middle class...
When night falls outside the sprawling Kadena Air Force Base in the center of Okinawa, the streets turn into a bacchanalian fest of hard drinking, loud music and raucous, sweaty dancing. American servicemen are on the prowl for liquor and a good time. The local girls, Okinawans and Japanese, come out too, looking for some fun with the buff, dollar-rich and female-deprived American boys. Tattooed guys in muscle shirts and cargo pants rub against women in midriff-baring Tshirts and tight jeans, and as the crowd spills from bars onto sidewalks, the night shifts into hormonal overdrive...
...George Bush, shrinking government revenues isn't something you want to see just after you got Congress to pass a $1.3 trillion tax cut. During the budget debate, Democrats howled loud and long that the budget surplus projections W. was using to justify his tax cut were flaky. The tax revenues wouldn't pan out, particularly if the economy soured, they argued. With the economy now worsening and the revenue projections dropping, Democrats plan to remind the White House of this "all the time," says a senior aide with the House Democratic leadership. "It's a big problem for Republicans...