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Arlo was born in 1947 to folk legend Woody Guthrie and dancer Marjorie Mazia Guthrie of the Martha Graham company. Arlo emerged from his father's shadow with his debut of Alice's Restaurant Massacre at the Newport Folk Festival in 1967. Although he would take a number of tacks in the years to follow, Arlo defined his essential sensibility with this loquacious, sardonic, mock-shaggy dog approach to song writing. In 1969 the album Alice's Restaurant was made into a movie in which Guthrie starred as himself. In the 27 years since, he has released album after album...
...different. Hiss on first inspection looked like the Fred Astaire of the mandarin left, lithe and well bred, the Establishment's own darling prothonotary warbler. Chambers, sad-sack Dostoyevskian pudge, more Slavic than American in mind, with terrible teeth and an air of doom, seemed to inhabit a flinching shadow world. He dodged through the '30s packing a revolver and hugging the walls of dark corridors. A paranoid smudge, the mandarins thought, whose amorphous bulk concealed a damaged child given to imagining grandiose conspiracies, and messiah roles for himself. Poor Chambers was brutally and dismissively psychoanalyzed, more so than Hiss...
...criticism of these lucrative professions is specifically based on the fact that they are extremely lucrative, that many of those who enter that world come out very wealthy people. The world of law and business, money management and investment is cast in one great dark shadow--MONEY. To observers, this is what that world is about. Money is an object, or a commodity which people love to hate. There is something "cool" or noble about choosing to belittle the significance of money, and something weak and compromising about attributing to it great importance. In Gen Ed 105, in the world...
...compromise he struck in calling for an independent counsel, President Clinton must now bear the risks. Had the Clintons been able to leave Whitewater in the political arena, it would at least be over with this election. As it is, the second Clinton term begins with an ominous shadow hanging over it. Unburdened by electoral politics, Starr is free to conclude his investigation. Perhaps the Clintons will be exonerated. Surely no one but their most partisan opponents hopes for charges, or for any ensuing ordeal that would distract Congress and the White House from the business of governance. But history...
...Should he have stuck to tax cutting, as Jack Kemp and Steve Forbes kept insisting, or run against abortion and vulgar pop culture, as William Bennett and the Christian right were hoping? At one time or another, Dole tried to run all those ways, so his loss cast a shadow over every label and lets every wing of the party read the returns in the way that suits it best. But when the fighting is over, the only question that will really matter is this one: If the Republican Party is in pieces again, who picks them...