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...sterile breeding ground for eccentrics. This year's presidential sweepstakes is no exception, according to Weeks. George Bush and Michael Dukakis, he believes, are Milquetoasts. Weeks is convinced that demonstrable eccentricity should be a required trait for America's leaders in order to keep them happy, creative and sane. "America needs idealism, vision and humor in the White House," he urges. "A real eccentric would have all those qualities in abundance. We need another genuine oddball in the White House...
...other presides over his workroom, an unsettling tableau of dream maidens and bare breasts in an otherwise comfortable setting. "Sadly," Ballard says, "the only surrealists around these days are psychopaths. But we all need to fight off the growing suburbanization of the soul. I want to see the sane become surrealists...
...Daily Star and then the Evening News. His Luciferian arch-enemy Luthor, the mad scientist who wants to conquer the world, once had red hair, then became bald, then reacquired red hair; in the movies he was played as a buffoon, but now he has turned into a reasonably sane but incurably wicked conglomerate tycoon. Superman is also vulnerable to Kryptonite, the stuff that Krypton was made of, except when he is sometimes not vulnerable to Kryptonite. There is no longer one Superman, in other words, but half a dozen or more. The comic-book hero is different from...
Clearly these statements do not reflect the views of a man sane enough to guide this nation at one of its most critical times. However, Robertson's three strong primary finishes show that a substantial number of conservative voters have picked up Robertson's banner--making him a dangerous factor in the Republican convention and possibly even a presidential nominee. This is a serious threat--one that would destroy many of the things America stands for--and should be treated more seriously than it is now. If New Hampshire voters fail to stop Robertson now, Americans in the rest...
...soloist, master of the improvised trip through his own weird inner space, he generally arrives onscreen bearing the burden of our heightened hopes for a divine madness. Up to now, his genius has not fit any known film format. Narrative obligations and the implicit demand that leading characters be sane, likable and consistent have always constrained...