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...endured 50 years ago. Not only do they have opportunities beyond the dreams of their grandparents, but advancements in media technology present powerful images of role models to them that they can’t easily ignore. Yes, some of these images are of unsavory athletes, entertainers and other miscreant personalities, but it would be disingenuous to say that no positive images cross their “radar screens...
...meanwhile, are free to settle down with the Coens in their best environment, which is provincial America. Their most delicious films (Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou?) are populated by curiously likable boneheads, obsessively committed to miscreant conspiracies far too complex for them to really master. Opposing them are thwarting figures like Marva (or Marge, Fargo's immortally sensible, pregnant, smart police chief) who appear at first glance to be simple souls but are, in fact, the salt of our earth--folks who have so internalized their morality that it comes out as just plain common sense, funnily understated. They...
...quickly sealed off the Bowl. But the questionable package turned out to be a harmless device that would release fire-works and a banner over the stadium reading “No School on Monday”—most likely a prank by some miscreant Elis gone awry...
Simply dismissing Langewiesche’s work as lies and labeling him a “miscreant,” as the Professional Fire Fighters of Massachusetts union has done, is more indicative of unwillingness to grapple with unpleasant truths than a carefully considered debunking of Langewiesche’s book. If firefighters, or anyone else, wish to contest Langewiesche’s findings, they would be much better served by presenting counter-arguments backed with evidence rather than resorting to name-calling...
...Hmmm. "Wake Up, Little Suzie" is about a harmlessly miscreant teenager who's kept the girl out way too late and has major anxiety about the disapproval of parents. Maybe the Bush people could come up with a song that's a little more grown-up, something that does not bring parents into the picture...