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As a lifelong fan, I keep waiting for the comic heroine of The Philadelphia Story to enter. Wouldn't Tracy Lord have chastened Dexter with a blithe reprimand and moved on? If not humor, what about understanding and empathy? But these, the critics found, were the very qualities she had...
Less inspired are the lyrics, which range from gibberish to p.c. platitudes ("Someday we shall all be one"). Only on Blue Nun, a snickering satire of middle-class oenophiles, and Pass the Mic, a put-down of rival rappers who "haven't got a thing to say," do the Beasties...
) Initial responses were mixed. A reviewer for the Austin American-Statesman griped, "I don't remember ever seeing animated retching before, and hope to never see it again." Campus critics took a different view. Ren's constant bleat -- "You bloated sack of protoplasm!" -- began to replace Bart Simpson's "Eat...
Not all the new families are as dysfunctional as the one on Good & Evil, but few seem very happy together, at least initially. In ABC's Step by Step, two single parents (Patrick Duffy and Suzanne Somers) marry and merge their respective three-child broods; the kids are at one...
Those in ROTC do not deserve any sort of put-down; it takes effort and dilligence to get up early in the mornings, sacrifice afternoons and weekends, and serve during part of the summer and years after college. ROTC students are perhaps the only students at Harvard who could both...