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...trick of the worst kind, a bombshell that has no effect on the characters. We could forgive Tremblay these histrionics if he made the moment of our discovery a fulcrum, and swung the family into revealing psychological or moral perceptions. But his probing of Serge's childhood is just pablum from the Freudian stockpot. "We brought you up like a little girl," Lucienne tells Serge, and then berates him for not being gay and thereby escaping the family. It is supposed to be heroic when Serge stands by Nicole, declaring. "It's love, and it's real," but his defiance...
They grew up together in the '50s, but television and rock 'n' roll have always been contrary siblings. One soothes, the other threatens. One offers visual Pablum, the other musical grits. Even in the packaged and homogenized forms developed by such entrepreneurs as Dick Clark and Don Kirshner, TV has rarely accommodated its more rambunctious relative. Until now, that is. Warner Amex Satellite Entertainment Co.'s MTV (Music Television) is uniting the rival brethren in amplified harmony...
...letter appearing in The Crimson on October 15, four members of the William J. Seymour Society labeled the issue of minority representation in the new student government as "laughable" and "pablum." They went on to single out GSA's [Gay Students Association] desire for a voice in the new government as "puerile" and "illegitimate." I suggest that the society, instead of spewing invectives and denying the oppression of other groups (including Asians, women, Hispanics, "middle-class Blacks" and Gays), might use its time and energy more constructively...
...logic that the most burning issue for a Black student association on campus should be the question of "minority representation" in the Student Council. The entire affair would be laughable, were it not for the fact that The Crimson and The Independent feel obliged to waste newsprint on such pablum. We shall set aside for the moment the empirically groundless analogy which is opportunistically drawn by Asians and white gays in equating their so-called oppression with that of poor Blacks...
...purpose of the booklet, Chafin says, "is to make sure students know they're living in a dangerous city, but that they can be safe if they follow simple rules." Those rules range from the usual pablum about not walking alone at night and not accepting rides from strangers to very detailed, hard-headed recommendations. For example, "Playing It Safe" advises that if you notice someone following you down the street...