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...Plain-Speaking Jeane...
...think that's plain foolish. The idea of having diplomatic relations is to be able to communicate. And the time when you dispense with diplomatic relations is when you have given up on the idea of communication and when you are seeking other means to settle your problems. I don't like a world in which we're seeking other means to settle our problems...
...when you get down to it, this Yale football team is just plain bad. It's true that things wouldn't be so tough without the spate of injuries the Bulldogs have suffered, but the way Yale has lost certain games says a lot about the quality of the team...
...inventiveness seem equally true and equally preposterous. On the eve of India's independence, the owner of a moviehouse in Delhi tries to appease both Hindus and Muslims by showing a double feature. One is a vegetarian epic "about a lone, masked hero who roamed the Indo-Gangetic plain liberating herds of beef cattle from their keepers," the other a Randolph Scott western of the genre "in which cows got massacred and the good guys feasted on steaks." Nobody comes, and then the theater is bombed; the blast kills the owner and blows all the clothes off his daughter...
...also shows positive signs. He allows his publications a certain freedom--Alexander Cockburn, the media critic for Murdoch's Village Voice, often directs his jibes at Murdoch's Post. Moreover, perhaps due to Murdoch's concern with success, he does not level all his publications to the same bleak plain. If the New York Post often runs trash, then New York offers "classy trash"--to use writer Richard Reeve's description of the magazine's content. Yet Reeves offered that appraisal before Murdoch owned New York. And only a cursory examination of recent New York stories reveals that "classy trash...