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Then you have to reckon with their effect on ads, packaging, T shirts, window design in shops, the whole reappropriation party -- amusing and even joyous at first, and then, like most parties, a drag -- that the American commercial world threw to welcome back the images and techniques Lichtenstein took from it and put into a zippier, more art-conscious form, ripe for reuse as "quality" stuff...
...point first; sometimes their leaders do. Popular sentiment for an accommodation between Israel and the Arabs has been pushing up through the Middle East soil for six or seven years, ripening but not ready. Who's to say, exactly, what made an avowed terrorist and a gruff, tough soldier reckon the time to pluck it had come? Rabin, hero of the Six-Day War, stern enforcer of the occupation, talked about territorial compromise but seemed an unlikely figure to break long-standing taboos. As Defense Minister during the early days of the intifadeh, he vowed to defeat it with "force...
...tousle-haired comedy writer plucked from obscurity by producer Lorne Michaels, will try to fill Letterman's old chair on NBC. Leno, feeling the competitive heat, has had his mug plastered on billboards around the country, while Arsenio Hall, despite slipping ratings, is still a hip-hop force to reckon with. Add to that Ted Koppel's sturdy (and frequently top-rated) Nightline and wild cards like Rush Limbaugh, and you have the most hotly contested, creatively bustling time period in television. "Late night," says Leno, "is just about the only place on network TV where anything interesting is happening...
...When the Republican Party can elect women, it will once again be a party to reckon with," Pieper said...
...there's an odd failure to reckon with the cultural side of menopause. Outside of affluent, white societies, menopause apparently goes by without much notice -- either because women's sufferings are considered unimportant or because the sufferings just don't occur. Greer coins the term anophobia to describe the irrational fear and dislike of old women so prevalent in Western culture, and one can't help wondering how menopause would be experienced in an "anophiliac" setting -- where elderly women receive the same respect and honor as gray-templed males. Hot flashes might feel like surges of energy, or like...