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MORAL EQUIVALENCE IS a neat rhetorical ploy, especially when one is not able to argue the issue at hand on its own merits. But playing these games' can turn one's head to mush. F'rinstance: the United States has more than 10,000 warheads pointed at the Soviet Union, ready to end the world as we know it to prevent the spread of Communism (not surprisingly, few conservatives include the armaggedon factor when playing moral equivalence games with South Africa). To be consistent, should we also turn our nuclear arsenal and our massive military might against P.W. Botha, Johannesburg...
Unless you believe syllogism is gospel, you should be wondering whether the Soviet Union divestment movement is really anything more than a neat rhetorical ploy, a way of saying, "We're not going to play in your sandbox anymore, we'll make up our own game...
...think one of the things has been frustrating for Bachrach and Gallagher was that they thought there could be a neat list of what chemicals are toxic, and that does not exist. It's a very complex area that's not going to be easily regulated...
...dark, still liquids, interconnected by a web of white pipes running uphill and down, pock the landscape. Oily sludge is stirred into the ground. A tanker truck squirts full blast into a waste pond. With its tidy system of interlacing roads and sharply etched contours, the dump is as neat as a map and profoundly ugly...
...ignores the fact that the best work in this film is done by a dog, and even if one likes light, airy comedies with no sex or bad words, Maxie cannot stand on its own. All of the comedy is too light, and all of the endings are too neat. In fact, when Maxie is over, you feel a bit nauseous, as if you have just eaten your way out of a mountain of cotton candy...