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...identify with the logic of the Johnson murders because they faced the same day-to-day fear and humiliation. When there are a thousand ways to lash out against the systematized caprice of a workplace like that, moral absolutes like "you don't shoot your boss" are turned to mush. There's a special bond between James Johnson and the countless other Rachel Scott describes as people and cites as numbers in her extended piece of journalism about industrial accidents and diseases. A special bond that calls for special terms, like James Johnson's terms, and the terms Racial Scott...
...When Astronaut Neil Armstrong took his "one small step for man," the reader is going to know it was in a boot sized 9½B. The day President Eisenhower suffered his coronary thrombosis, Manchester, you can bet, knew what he had for breakfast: "beef bacon, pork sausages, fried mush, and flapjacks." Statistics tumble on the reader's head like the rich chaos from Fibber McGee's closet. Who else would know that the average height of American women increased ½ in. between 1945 and 1954 (from...
...media" as a monolith instead of the collection of diverse organizations and individuals that is American journalism. In hanging the civil rights movement's troubles on sensation-seeking press coverage, he ignored a host of political, social and economic factors. The piece was a paradigm of the opinionated mush that [More] attacks when it appears elsewhere. To cap the inconsistency, the same issue of [More] carried a full-page Mobil ad of the kind that Epstein deplored...
...Korean War and because he has refused to leave the city, staking his claim on Riverside Drive. Before long, of course, the wild ones invade Paul's domestic bastion and violate his wife and daughter, and then of course the wife dies and the daughter's brain turns to mush and she must go to a convent for the rest of her days...
...movie is no more than another Hollywood spectacular, all the show and the glitter, the gold and the tinsel, all sunbursts and exploding skies. It tells a good story with lots of yummy mush and death to boot; it's a nice little Hollywood bit. It runs just like an American beauty pageant, stargazing from start to finish. From the first laborious pan over Gatsby's shining bedspread the movie shows off its affects. Come, you are cordially invited, to this miracle of Gatsby masquerading...