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...Finance 46 minutes per citizen on the Psychic Friends Network...
...ironies of the Jonesboro massacre is that people looking for a refuge from stress and violence often try to escape to places very much like Jonesboro. But most of the recent school shootings have occurred in rural areas. The psychic stresses of the 1990s are not so easy to evade--not when so many of them, from TV to being a latchkey child, are right in the home. There they can easily act on any kid who believes that "the world has wronged me"--a sentiment spoken from the darkest part of the human heart. And no place in America...
...such luck for Clinton. What we get now is movies in which the President is a man in thrall to his own libidinal fumblings, Commander in Chief of the banana republic. Maybe the Gennifer Flowers episode of Clinton's '92 campaign gave Hollywood the psychic go-ahead it needed to make an assault on old pieties about the presidency. The very next year the movies gave us Dave. That was the one in which Kevin Kline is an amiable presidential look-alike who fills in when the real President (named Bill!) is sidelined by a stroke that he suffered while...
...Beloved's triumvirate of mother and daughters--detract from the novel as a whole. Again, though, this ailment of the text proved ironically rewarding for the Faneuil Hall audience, who could follow the movements of plot and character easily without the impediments of tortuous internal conflicts or irreducible psychic complexities...
...Weegee as a chronological and psychological midpoint between two utterly different photographers. One is the turn-of-the-century muckraker Jacob Riis, who saw New York City as a social problem to be solved. The other is Diane Arbus, who found in the city life of the 1960s a psychic spectacle of creepy fascination. Weegee haunts the same kind of shabby neighborhoods that Riis did. But what goes on in Weegee's festive, suffering, unsanitary New York is a sight to be enjoyed more than clucked over. The tenements that preoccupied Riis, a moralist and social reformer, are taken...