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Enis claims he had "the facts" surrounding the massacre of 19 Palestinians on October 8. But where did those facts come from? After the massacre, two set of "facts" were put forth, one from the most extreme, right-wing government in Israel's history, the other from Palestinian civilians who...
In a more general sense, too, Heaney's language is like his landscape. His sentences are earthy and declarative; they have the tones of a farmer talking to his neighbor across the stone fence. The vocabulary is stoutly native, rich with Anglo-Saxon nouns whose vowels are strong and round...
Even more gross is Barfo, a gelatinous goo manufactured by Topps, the bubble-gum company. The fruit-flavored candy is packed in squeezable plastic figures that extrude the substance through their mouths. Says a seven-year-old who savors the stuff: "When I think about it, it's disgusting." That...
The networks are pushing the boundaries of language and subject matter more aggressively too. Uncle Buck, a CBS sitcom based on the John Candy movie, has already drawn fire for filling the mouths of its onscreen tykes with raunchy put-downs like "you suck" and "freckle butt." In the first...
There were those who were ready to see the Proposition 111 vote as a sign that after more than a decade of sharply reduced services, Americans have at least grudgingly acknowledged the need to pay for badly needed improvements in their roads, schools and environment. "They are ready to put...