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Gertrude dies in childbirth less than 15 minutes into the movie, and Trinke is left to take care of their baby, a daughter he names Gertie. Unable to cope with his wife’s death or his new role as parent, Trinke immerses himself in work until his father, Bart (George Carlin), refuses to take care of Gertie any longer. Flustered, abandoned, and completely covered in baby powder, Trinke has a very public nervous breakdown at a news conference...
...guitar teacher found for me in a used guitar shop in Greenwich Village, and my outdated, less than tidy fashion sense, I wonder whether my refusal to consider any contemporary pop musician his equal is just a premature case of longing for the good old days, like a parent complaining about his kid’s music. A small dose of MTV or listening to the radio usually relieves such concerns pretty quickly, though, and I’m convinced that the decade since his death has, in an almost objective sense, been utter crap for music...
...China "interpreted" the Basic Law before? Yes, but in an utterly different circumstance. After the handover in 1997, thousands of mainlanders with a Hong Kong parent demanded the right of abode in Hong Kong. The territory's courts ruled in their favor. But the Hong Kong government asked Beijing to reinterpret the law to prevent the migrations, which it did. In that case, Hong Kong surrendered its judicial autonomy to China; Beijing merely obliged. Legal experts and libertarians were appalled but not the general public, because most Hong Kongers don't want to see more mainlanders coming to the territory...
...INDICATORS Don't Call Back French cell-phone operator Orange announced the departure of CEO Solomon Trujillo after just a year in the job. The move comes amid structural change at Orange 's parent, France...
...THINK IT IS HARDER OR EASIER TO SHOCK AN AUDIENCE TODAY? I like to push people's buttons. I like to bother people's sacred values. It is not hard to do that with certain topics. I find the taboos of today are religion, the flag and children--the parent-child phenomenon. This cult of the child has developed, and the cult of the parent--which are to me appalling and overdone and probably dangerous for children...