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...crack outside, Ripper finally shares exactly why he has begun World War III. Under the stark black and white camera, in a hushed tone of inspiration, he tells Mandrake, "I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion, and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids." This is a man with a mission...
...Lewis' was a melodramatic Dane -- an agitated youth who raced across his world of a stage as if late for a date with doom. It was a reckless, bravura turn that could sap any star's strength. In the middle of a performance toward the end of the run, Day-Lewis left the stage and did not return. The theater pages were full of rumors that he had seen his father as the ghost and was driven daft. "I have no bad feelings about my father, my father's ghost, the ghost of Hamlet, Hamlet, Shakespeare, Richard Eyre...
Others deny the need for African Americans to repudiate openly other African Americans who express antiwhite or anti-Semitic sentiments. They maintain that public repudiations of this sort undermine African-American unity, sap the group's morale and consequently weaken it before a hostile society. They are mistaken. At the moment, an excess of conformity is far more dangerous than an excess of dissension to the well-being of the African-American community. A paucity of searching, highly public scrutiny of African-American leadership has had a disastrous effect on the tone of African-American political culture, rendering it vulnerable...
...kissed that recommendation goodbye. But then I thought, what if I was Mr. Smith? Regardless of whether or not I agreed with the senator's position, I'd at least expect a respectful reply from my elected representative. Now before you roll your eyes and start calling me a sap, hear...
...Broadcasting Act, which would give the FCC's moribund Fairness Doctrine the force of law and require TV and radio stations to provide a balance of polticial opiions, has passed the Senate and been sent to the House. Some fans of RUSH LIMBAUGH believe the bill is intended to sap the power of the conservative commentator, but a spokesman for Congressman John Dingell says this isn't so: "The world does not revolve around Limbaugh, although he's large enough...