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...become so normal it doesn't even affect you. On TV, out of nowhere, they'll begin talking about masturbation." Another Ryan, 13, in the eighth grade at the same school, agrees: "There's sex in the cartoons and messed-up people on the talk shows--'My lover sleeping with my best friend.' I can remember the jumping-condom ads. There's just too much...
Here's a quick rundown. Bill (Martin Donovan), Dedee's half brother, has been nursing himself through mourning for his recently dead lover by romping with dishy, semidim Matt (Ivan Sergei), who may also be seeing the queeny Jason (Johnny Galecki). Dedee too has an old boyfriend (William Scott Lee) who keeps getting in the way. The only one not having sex is Lucia (Lisa Kudrow), Bill's neighbor and his dead lover's sister. And the only "normal" guy around is...Lyle Lovett. As we say, it's complicated...
...after. Chicken Soup for the Soul: 101 Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit, by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, hit the top of the best-seller lists in 1995 and spawned a series of sequels--Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul, for the Pet-Lover's Soul, for the Teenage Soul, for the Soul at Work, ad nauseam--that together have sold more than an astounding 28 million copies. (Suggestion for a new title: Chicken Soup for the Souls of 33 Publishers Who Really, Really Screwed Up.) The Chicken Soup product line is the publishing...
...rules" [VIEWPOINT, May 4]. But Letourneau is not a Victorian heroine who pitched away her bourgeois life for a star-crossed affair with the man of her dreams. She is a deeply troubled woman caught between the pressures of a failed marriage and financial bankruptcy. And her lover is no man, but a child. We should not romanticize adults who use children as outlets for frustrations and needs. Whether the perpetrator is an attractive woman or a menacing 300-lb. biker, whether the victim is male or female, statutory rape is a serious crime with devastating consequences for our children...
...first we were inclined to think of the tale of the teacher and her sixth-grade lover as mere daytime-television trash in the flesh--the teacher-pupil angle slipping a ghost of incest into the narrative, and no doubt a touch of mental illness. On the other hand, we have gone pretty far in exhausting the categories of the forbidden. The love that dare not speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much...