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...manic overstimulation of American culture also makes excellence rarer. The great intellectual flowering of New England in the 19th century (Hawthorne, Emerson, Melville, Thoreau, Longfellow, et al.) resulted in part from the very thinness of the New England atmosphere, an under-stimulation that made introspection a sort of cultural resource. America today is so chaotically hyped, its air so thick with kinetic information and alarming images and television and drugs, that the steady gaze required for excellence is nearly impossible. The trendier victims retreat to sealed isolation tanks to float on salt water and try to calm down...
...hands of a trigger-happy administration, a draft could be used to smooth the way toward ill-advised U.S. adventurism along the lines of Lyndon Johnson's Southeast Asia strategy of 1966 and 1967. Volunteers became rarer during that period, but LBJ could depend on a steady flow of conscripted bodies to keep the troop planes full...
...characters. It is also extremely well acted at every level (one especially wants to single out Bob Balaban as the Government's chief aggressor and Wilford Brimley as its belated voice of conscience), and directed by Sidney Pollack with a sort of crisp but unassuming professionalism that is rarer than it ought to be. Perhaps best of all, the script, by sometime Journalist Kurt Luedtke, who was once part of a Pulitzer-winning investigative team on the Detroit Free Press, has a marvelously entertaining intricacy, briskly and believably building, half-inch by half-inch, Michael's outrage over...
...counterparts, took a different view of it. The city seemed to fulfill the promise of the Grand Tour-to have the ancients as one's tutors, and the lower classes as one's brothel. Naples was poor in mementos of the Renaissance, but it offered something even rarer: no mere glimpse of classical antiquity, but a panoramic view...
...reception block for at least two weeks to help her adjust to her new surroundings. Eventually she will become part of the 420-woman population of the prison proper, 60% of it black and 15% Hispanic. Violence is rare at the women's institution; murders even rarer. "We are always overcrowded," says the "escorting officer" who, with a nicety Harris might appreciate, hates to be called a guard. The inmates are referred to as "clients...