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...criticized for everything from restarting several of Mahathir's extravagant megaprojects to rolling back press freedoms that he himself had granted. At the same time, his stolid image as a compromise candidate has come back to haunt him. "His performance is disappointing, unexciting," says Kuala Lumpur-based economist Din Merican. "He can't grasp details, and he does not understand the future...
...Coulter also once again betrays her own blinkered urbanism, which - try as she might to appear like a regular 'Merican - naggingly resurfaces every few pages, reminding us that she has lived nearly all her life in the Northeast and much of it in Manhattan. She writes: "Environmentalists' energy plan is the repudiation of America and Christian destiny, which is Jet Skis, steak on the electric grill, hot showers, and night skiing." Only someone who has virtually never lived more than 100 miles from the East Coast could concoct a list of such suburban Americana. (For that matter, who anywhere cooks...
...volume of Ame rican mass media and culture Britain imports. South Park and Oprah dominate television, Ja Rule gets more radio play than Oasis, and Starbucks and McDonald’s are sometimes harder to escape here than back home. Every major nation has imported a wealth of A merican culture, to be fair, but the English can’t seem to get enough...
What does bear scrutiny here is the degree to which Paglia's own posturings have been highly marketable and even more highly lucrative. Presenting herself as, variously, the ultimate outsider; the last remaining "authentic" voice of feminism; a battle-weary warrior for truth, justice, and the 'merican way, poor, poor Professor Paglia hits the lecture circuit, appears on talk show after talk show and yaps, yaps, yaps, about how she has been denied her "rightful" place at the academic table because she dares to speak the unpopular "truth." Yet the uncomfortable truth for Paglia is that her traveling one-woman...
...National W omen's Film Circuit:6 Films by Contemporary A merican W omen, Friday and Saturday...