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...productive. They can't agree on whether Americans are better or worse off than a few years ago. They don't know if the economy can grow faster and unemployment recede further without whipping up inflation. They can't even decide how to gauge inflation. "It's like a Rorschach," says Yardeni. "You take the data set. You see what you want...
Only in an election year can a standard report on U.S. economic growth turn into a Rorschach test. Moments after the government said last week that economic activity slowed to a 2.2% annual growth rate in the July-through-September quarter--following a 4.7% pace in the previous three months--the candidates grabbed the nearest microphone and gave wildly diverse interpretations of what the number meant. For Dole, it showed an economy teetering on disaster; for Clinton, it was a welcome business-activity downshift that would keep alive the 5 1/2-year expansion without reawakening inflation...
Hootie has become a kind of rock-'n'-roll Rorschach test for fans and detractors alike. Fans often see them as a shiny, happy people band, a safe band, an integrated group of nice boys who play golf--a comfortingly Eurocentric sport--and who specialize in songs that are tuneful and direct, such as their irresistible sing-along hit Hold My Hand; indeed, the band's cheeky but wholesome appeal is not dissimilar to the early, hand-holding Beatles'. Detractors basically agree with this characterization. But they find the straightforward, seemingly optimistic nature of the band's music profoundly, aggressively...
...nightmare with a happy ending; a Rorschach drawing in fingerpaint--these are definitions of a Disney cartoon. Toy Story, though released by Disney, was not exactly generated by it. In the mid-'80s, Lasseter, a Disney alumnus, joined the Marin County computer lab Pixar and made three terrific shorts (Luxo Jr., Red's Dream and Tin Toy) in which he invested metal objects such as lamps, unicycles and drummer-boy toys with life and heart. These films, forerunners to Toy Story, ingeniously show that things have wills and wits of their own and exist in intimate relation to their human...
...Second Amendment is like a Rorschach test: observers tend to examine it and discover whatever they already believe about gun control. Gun-rights groups like the N.R.A. are Second Amendment absolutists who believe that the 27-word passage bestows an inviolable right to own and carry guns. Gun-control advocates, on the other hand, tend to view the amendment as a dusty historical relic. For almost everyone else, the wording of the amendment is puzzling: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall...