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...itemize the blandishments of all those morality movies (Flipper, May 17; Alaska, July 14; Kazaam, July 17; The Adventures of Pinocchio, July 26; The Spitfire Grill, August 23, et al.) about misunderstood kids with Dondi eyes and platinum hearts who learn The True Meaning of Friendship from a MENSA-level dolphin, a genie played by Shaquille O'Neal, an adorable polar bear or Martin Landau as Geppetto. For two other childlike films, adults (and adult-like children) may have a hope...
...more years than any combo in history. Another is that it was a time capsule for the elan of the '60s, hopeful and engaged, melodious and raucous. It was also the ragged champs of the art of improvisation. If rock musicians prove their wits by vamping, the Dead were Mensa masters. A single song, in its myriad tonal variations, could go on for the better part of an hour--or the worse part, if inspiration was lacking that night. Deadheads came for that inspiration, and found it in the roly-poly guitarist with a missing middle finger on his strumming...
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...editor of a newsletter for the Los Angeles chapter of Mensa, the organization for people with high IQs, was fired today for publishing articles that called for killing homeless, elderly and mentally ill Americans. Nikki Frey, the editor of "Lament," had maintained that she "would not print anything I thought was truly harmful and insensitive," but the local group's board didn't buy it. No wonder: The newsletter's November issue, publicized more widely in the Los Angeles Times this week, urged that "mentally defective" people be "humanely dispatched" and mourned that Adolf Hitler spoiled a good debate over...
Should the homeless, retarded and mentally-infirm elderly be exterminated to make room for smart people? Should the horrors of the Holocaust be ignored to rethink the old master race idea? Such an "intellectual cleansing" campaign was proposed in a recent newsletter for a Los Angeles chapter of Mensa, the organization for high-IQ people who should know better. Many of the chapter's 2,000 members have been up in arms since the November issue of Lament appeared, the Los Angeles Times reported today. Authored by two Mensa writers, one article asserts that Adolf Hitler's greatest crime...