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...Gingrich thinks the new attitude is a function of resurgent idealism, rather than profound discontent, then he hasn't spent enough time with voters like Thomlin. What motivates them is a deep distrust, not only of authority figures but also of the national picture of peace and prosperity. In a Time/CNN poll conducted in early January, 53% agreed that the country is in ``deep and serious trouble,'' compared with 40% a decade ago. By most obvious and traditional measures, America is doing well. Unemployment is the lowest in five years, the economy is growing, and crime has eased somewhat...
...granted peace and wisdom. That most of the dying results from a bootlegging operation Tristan starts up during Prohibition tends to short-circuit whatever impulses toward terror and pity we might still have. Running hooch in from Canada is not an occupation we usually associate with profound drama, especially when it is centered on a figure who is literally a deadly bore...
...Taylor recorded an album with tenor saxophonist John Coltrane. It is difficult to find a more bizarre record anywhere. With Coltrane struggling mightily to cling to his own advanced harmonic world against Taylor's barrage of atonal clusters, jarring rhythmic patterns, and jackhammer assaults on the piano, a profound tug-of-war between two musical camps ensues. Nobody wins, and the tension produced is exhausting both for the musicians and listeners. Still, this has to be one of the most interesting recordings of American music ever made. It has the curiosity value that one might experience hearing Frank Zappa conduct...
...audacity. He does what all musicians at some point dream of doing: going on stage and banging on the piano with hands and fists, like a film technician simply searching for the neat sound effect. But as Taylor's recordings from the 1960s show, his music is much more profound than that...
...combat readiness. Prominent military experts such as Gen. Colin Powell and Col. David Hackworth have long opposed the admission of gays to the military. Nor is the situation comparable to desegregation, as Gen. Powell relates: "Skin color is a benign, non-behavioral characteristic. Sexual orientation is perhaps the mos profound of human behavioral characteristics. Comparison of the two is a convenient but invalid argument...