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...looked like"; but this is true romance. The two must marry, run into some mortal trouble (Gary Oldman as a drug dealer, Christopher Walken as a Mafia don) and flee -- with the surprise package of a suitcase full of cocaine -- to Los Angeles. Their moral code is hardly more righteous than that of their pursuers, but they're on their way, down a white-brick road toward the end of the rainbow. You kind of know Elvis will be there...
Home, family and tribe are central to Pigs. But it is also an on-the-road novel. Taylor's old Dodge covers a lot of territory as Kingsolver guides her story to a middle ground between Tom Robbins' potty detachment and Louise Erdrich's righteous commitment to Native American causes. The result is a stylish romp with a nonconfrontational conclusion. Turtle is launched toward a two-culture future and possibly another sequel...
...Senator Simon's performance was odd, then Ted Turner's was disgraceful. The industry's Judas, Turner pilloried broadcasters for showing violent programming. Aflame with righteous indignation, he claimed an obvious causal connection between the violence in television programming and that of America's streets...
Blaming TV, then, has the satisfying character of a righteous act. For scientific support, the TV-blamers enlist the child psychologists. They crow about the dangers of exposure to violence on TV, for the moment...
...killing of any innocent character is invariably portrayed in such a maudlin, mawkish way that there can be no mistake about the moral status of the act. If TV shaped our behavior, then America would likely be a continent of self-righteous citizens out to exact justice in a morally simplistic world of good guys and bad guys--violent, perhaps, but not random...