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...manufactured sheen of No Doubt. _Exterminator_ is an attempt to recapture the glory of 1977, when punk seemed like it just might win. While straight-ahead punk does appear here (the glorious opening suite of "Kill All Hippies," "Accelerator" and "Exterminator"), more important is the group's appropriation of righteous anger. Leftist rage permeates the album, unifying techno ("Swastika Eyes"), hip-hop ("Pills") and guitar noise of the best sort ("MBV Arkestra") with an unmediated rage...
...indeed a victim, but also a strong, fallible, fully realized character. As the terror mounts, she is forced to call the police, move out of her apartment and finally change her name and her life. But there's never a cry for pity, a whiff of the self-righteous. When her ditsy secretary confesses that it was she who gave Tony her home number, Theresa offers the expected pat of sympathy--"Thank you for telling me. I know that was hard to do." Then she fires...
Does Hillary finally have an opening in her race to overtake Giuliani? Her challenge now is to resist her own impulse to become self-righteous, to let Giuliani be his own worst enemy and hope that more of those voters who think Rudy has saved the city will start being worried that he's too intemperate for a collegial body like the Senate. So far, the campaign has been an uphill struggle for her. For months she "listened" to New Yorkers as if she were Margaret Mead collecting stories from the natives in Samoa, and blundered every time she opened...
...When Paramount announced plans for a Dr. Laura television show, gay-advocacy groups bombarded executives with phone calls and e-mails threatening a boycott. Schlessinger, 53, has told her 18 million listeners that homosexuality is a "biological error" and that gays are "sexual deviants." At first, the rigidly self-righteous Schlessinger called her nemeses "fascists" and proclaimed herself a lone voice "for Judeo-Christian ideology." But on Friday, cowed, she issued an apology. "Some of the words I've used have hurt some people, and I'm sorry for that...
...about as subtle as Steven Soderberg's grandstanding movie gets. As the real-life paralegal who uncovered a public-health scandal and helped win the largest civil judgment ever, Roberts gets to tell off lawyers, clerks, her decent boss (Albert Finney) and her faultless boyfriend (Aaron Eckhart) from the righteous perch of her 3-in. heels. And the bras that peek above her sweaters--they're more colorful than a Disney cartoon production number. They also provide the movie's only true uplift...