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...episodes of police violence that touch off conflagrations like the one in Cincinnati all seem so depressingly similar? Let's take a little quiz: a black a) homeless woman b) street vendor or c) teenager, armed with a) a screwdriver b) a wallet or c) nothing at all, is killed by cops under circumstances that are a) questionable b) grounds for murder charges or c) the cause of a riot...
Here's a medical pop quiz: Frick and Frack are friends who sport matching spare tires around their waists. Frick goes to Weight Watchers and loses 30 lbs.; Frack goes to the ice-cream parlor and downs a triple banana split every day for a month. So who will live longer? Anybody with a clue about obesity knows that conscientious Frick has lowered his risk of heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes and stroke. Frack has done exactly the opposite...
With the debuts this week of NBC's Darwinian, trash-talking quiz show The Weakest Link and UPN's blind-dates-in-bondage series Chains of Love, you can expect to hear cries that TV has finally gone too far. (Again!) But reality-TV critics and fans alike fail to see that the shows are really tiny morality plays. Underneath the sleaze are sermons illustrating simple, school-primer virtues. You may watch for the bikinis and backstabbing, but everything you need to know about life you can learn from reality...
Added to my list of online diversions is Scott Slonak’s 1990s Lyrics Quiz (www.artofthemix.org/writings/lyrics.asp). It’s a really simple concept: there’s a list of lines from 200 different songs that were popular in the 90s, and all you have to do is name the song each line came from. It’s infinitely frustrating to stare at a lyric and have the song on the tip of your tongue. Took me forever to remember that “life is demanding without understanding” is a line from...
...event in Hollywood this weekend? If you answered "The Oscars," you obviously don't live or work here. The Oscars is not the main event. It's just the excuse for the main event. Which is to party. If you don't believe me, just answer this simple pop quiz: Who won Best Actress last year? Who won Best Supporting Actor? Best Adapted Script? The answer: No one knows. Or cares. Except, of course, for the winners, their agents and the various deities who were profusely thanked for bestowing greatness on them...