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...WASTED!" does not pretend to examine an insane asylum, but rather an ordinary halfway house. Sarnat is more attuned to moments of deadpan humor than sticking to feelings of absolute despair and frustration. Like a talk-show, "WASTED!" has an episodic quality; the scenes are quick and short, with numerous fade-outs in between. Some of the actors, including Potier and Jacobs, have enough savvy to know that as much as their characters are supposed to be real people, their personas are meant to subvert the stereotypical notions of estranged youth...
...Brenda Edgerton, a vice president at Campbell Soup, said, "You get tired, awfully tired." Others advised taking up golf, reading the sports pages and getting a personality transplant. Says one: "Don't be attractive. Don't be too smart. Don't be assertive. Pretend you're not a woman. Don't be single. Don't be a mom. Don't be a divorcee...
...Time for Forgiveness," Feb. 21, 1996) to make the matter of the atonement White America must make for Slavery--and the Grand Apartheid which followed and lasted until 1965--a matter merely of white individuals apologizing to black individuals. It's readily apparent that Vanke needs to pretend that the dominion of the Confederacy ended with Lee's surrender at Appomattox and was not soon thereafter re-constructed via a voluminous number of legislative and extra-legal acts, including the Plessy decision, of the White South and the White North. Still, it is rather breathtaking to come across a living...
What Clinton has going for him, besides incumbency, is a tremendous ability to project empathy. Dole completely lacks this. It's part of his Lifer-ness that he simply is what he is; any efforts he makes to pretend otherwise inevitably seem tinny and false. Clinton, on the other hand, comes across as a Mandarin to Mandarins, would do better than Dole in coming across as a Talent to Talents, and might even be able to seem more like "one of us" to Lifers if Dole didn't have his heroic military service to backstop himself with his natural constituency...
Clinton, as the 1996 campaign begins, has a choice. He can try to confront his path's deficiencies head on, fix them, and thus get for the Mandarins the political legitimacy they now completely lack. Or he can pretend...