Word: sanest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about our gun culture, as if there's nothing to be done about a subgroup that finds schoolyard massacres an acceptable cost for its right to be armed to the teeth. But if the Constitution speaks of a "well-regulated militia," why don't we regulate it? Surely the sanest teenager isn't militia material. Gun ownership should not start until age 21, and it should require a background check at every purchase point, and a waiting period. Just as no one has a right to a machine gun, no one should have a right to a semiautomatic weapon...
...know that the mentally ill--paranoid schizophrenics, for example--hear menacing voices speaking from unlikely sources (harmless strangers, inanimate objects), or they read malignant meanings into random events, or they think the very furniture will rise up and murder them. Horrors like Flight 800 tend to nudge the sanest minds into the demoralized routines of paranoids. They grow jumpy, irrational. Such familiar rituals as air travel turn sinister...
...trails Madonna through Japan, North America and Europe as she pursues her hobby (rock star supreme) and her full-time job (do-it-yourself mythmaker). This is show biz, remember, where image elbows achievement out of the frame. Madonna knows this. She is the most self-aware, perhaps the sanest, of celebrities. So Truth or Dare doesn't dwell on what she has done. We know she has done plenty, done well and, in her AIDS-relief fund raising, done good. Keshishian shows us what Madonna thinks she is -- and what she, driven by her acute instincts and awesome nerve...