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...cannot engage in a contest of comparative horrors. Yet there is about the Holocaust a primal and satanic mystery. And no cheap grace can redeem it. The Third Reich was the greatest failure of civilization on the planet. In Freudian terms, it was as if the superego had gone crashing down into the dark, wild...
Viet Nam takes on different lights and different perspectives when held at a slightly different angle. In a sense, Viet Nam was an unthinkably intricate and insoluble tragedy of lies--lies and exaggerations and distortions on all sides. It was as if the war involved some primal falsification, something like original sin, or else, less grandiosely, a deep incompatibility of cultures --and from that lie others flowed, fluently and poisonously and endlessly...
...drawn, no arrests had been made and nobody said a word about it. To go to Mamou, then, is not to seek modernity. And nobody said quaint ever had to be pretty.) Mardi Gras in Mamou is for white boys a rite of passage, and there is something very primal and sexual about it. A boy of 16 is allowed to join in if he is accompanied by an adult; a boy of 17 can come on his own. For an $8 entry fee, he is assured of up to $250 in bail bonding against crimes he might commit...
...film begins with the voice of Gene Kelly, the chief narrator, over a dark screen, delivering a goofily pretentious lecture on the primal significance of dance. From there we go on a whirlwind tour of dance around the world and through the ages, bringing us to the present: Gene Kelly in a New York playground explaining the art of break-dancing. Unfortunately, Gene refuses to moon-walk or spin on his venerable head...
...special kind of country music, though, an odd hybrid called urban- country, which he pretested, like any academic sociologist, with audience surveys and focus groups. "I was ridiculed by other radio professionals and country-music experts," Pittman recalls. "They thought I was nuts. They were making primal sounds. But then the ratings showed we'd become the No. 1 country-music station in America...