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This is not just a matter of recapturing the look of postwar Los Angeles or making an attractive figure of a smart, righteous loner. It requires as well a taste for labyrinthine plotting (and a confidence that the audience will pay close attention to it despite the lack of car chases and explosions); a gift for bizarre, boldly stated characterizations (often enough hinting at sexual kinks); and, most important, a nose for social nuance...
...compared to other campus publications, this paper looks even better. The Perspective (bastion of bleeding heart liberalism), the Salient (mouthpiece for conservative self-righteous venom), and the Peninsula (a seething brew of libertarian, fundamentalist, and fascist viewpoints), are often either condescending, ignorant, or outright offensive on racial issues...
...official residence that "during a certain period of time in the not too distant past" Japan followed a "mistaken national policy" of "colonialism and aggression" that caused "tremendous damage and suffering to the people of many countries." He expressed his "heartfelt apology" and promised to eradicate "self-righteous nationalism...
Manning--who said she had come forward because when Gingrich "talks about family values and acts righteous about stuff like that, it just gets my back up"--is hardly a shill for the American welfare state, nor are Gingrich's former campaign treasurer and another aide who both went on the record with Sheehy about Gingrich's various affairs, but never mind. Stonewalling the press in matters sexual often works, but it doesn't stop the frenzy of interest, which is particularly high when the person in question has set himself up as the putative leader of the family-values...
DESPITE HOLLYWOOD'S SELF-RIGHTEOUS indignation at supposed threats to the First Amendment, let's not lose sight of the sole reason film producers turn out gory movies and vitriolic lyrics: money. To expect entertainment moguls to stop peddling lucrative scum is just about as realistic as to expect hyenas to become vegetarians. R. Alex Kaseberg La Jolla, California AOL: ThorDoggie...