Word: nam
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...shoots a monkey, only to realize that the monkey, in its death throes, is crying. “Its breath came out in sobs, and tears welled out of its eyes when it blinked.” A new recruit’s first experience in ‘Nam: he lies in bed with a prostitute who is “blowing smoke from her crotch while the jukebox in the next room played ‘Satisfaction’ by the Rolling Stones.” However, a few potent images cannot carry a novel like they...
When Michael Baroody of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) withdrew his nomination to run the Consumer Product Safety Commission on May 23, Democrats cheered that a fox had been barred from the henhouse. But, they sighed, President George W. Bush had otherwise succeeded in turning government over to businessmen...
...free corporate welfare, tax breaks and other Big Government goodies for industry. Baroody is a family man, a policy wonk whose father founded a think tank. But he's been working the Washington henhouse since 1970, and he has fought to shield manufacturers from claims and fines. Giving a NAM lobbyist power over consumer safety would have been like giving a child power over bedtime. It's only a problem if you expect enforcement...
...Still, at NAM, Baroody has fought to shield manufacturers from safety claims and fines over products ranging from asbestos to tobacco. That is, of course, his job. Most of the Administration's former lobbyists haven't broken any rules; they've just sided with industry against consumer activists and environmentalists. That's their job. Hiring a NAM lobbyist to oversee consumer safety regulation is a bit like letting a child set his own bedtime. It's only a problem if you expect enforcement...
...Anything can be art and anyone can do it,” claims George Maciunas, the founder of the Fluxus movement. The 1960s saw Maciunas filling Fluxboxes with games, ideas, and art; Nam June Paik forging robot sculptures out of television sets; and the likes of John Cage and Allan Kaprow creating “Happenings” with minimal script and ambiguous staging to blur the lines between art and reality. They formed part the loose network of border-crossing artists that shared the ethic of Fluxus. “Fluxus on Film” will be onscreen...