Word: reminder
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...blinders don't come with the business cards at TIME.com, so it's only fair to remind ourselves that college sports are rife with greed and hypocrisy, and that gambling is a big attraction to the tourney. But that's not why most people will be glued to the tube, apart from an innocuous $5 office pool. They'll watch for the right reasons...
...should be grateful for people like Horowitz and Mansfield. Their arguments don't always convince us, but they should remind us of how vigilant and valiant we all must be in defending the right of people everywhere to be controversial. We should try harder to remember the immortal words of Voltaire, who said, "I may not agree with a word you say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it." Only when these words characterize our moments of greatest disagreement will freedom of speech truly be secure...
...times the public and the press were in danger of losing perspective. Few officials in Britain, for instance, were raising their voices to remind people that the current scourge so far is a minor nuisance compared to the country's last big outbreak in 1967, which took five months to control and led to the killing of 440,000 animals. Or that foot-and-mouth disease, unlike bse, poses no serious danger to humans and isn't fatal even to animals. Or that the epidemic's overall economic impact would likely remain limited: agriculture comprises such a small slice...
...examine their desire to watch and what they watch." It may be that some of the audience, applying irony to reality shows and their own guilty pleasure in watching them, is more like Minahan the devoted viewer than Minahan the earnestly questioning filmmaker. These edgy films at least remind us that our sleazy, cheesy pop culture relies on our complicity, our indolence and passivity, to do its deadening work...
...companion telling you that you're good enough, handsome enough and smart enough, banishing all the little insecurities to your subconscious. And you bid them good riddance, because in your giddiness you feel liberated from those self-doubts?never mind that they are there for a reason, to remind you that you are vulnerable, that you are human. You feel totally, completely alive...