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Having one's heart warmed is a chilling experience not always avoidable by even the wariest cynic. A shameless manipulator in the hot-ventricle dodge is Michael Dorris, who 10 years ago, as a first novelist, gave us Rayona Taylor, the 15-year-old, part black, part Native American heroine of A Yellow Raft in Blue Water. You couldn't help falling for Rayona. She was plucky, pretty, buffeted by fate (her Indian mother Christine dies during the novel, and Elgin, her lackadaisical black father, is seldom seen) and crazy enough to enter a bronco-riding contest disguised...
There are those who condemn the shameless disregard for our national holidays. Memorial Day, after all, should be a time to honor and reflect. Instead, it has become synonymous with hot dogs, hamburgers and lighter fluid. But condemnation only polarizes and inflames while leaving the underlying problem unaddressed. The plain truth remains that for many Americans, several of our national holidays have become irrelevant. In the spirit of maintaining a vital and meaningful civic culture, maybe it's time we made some changes. Here are some suggestions...
...expected to convince the nation that the O.J. Simpson trial was the newest racial battleground in America, but convince us they did. As if it were divine revelation, America unquestioningly accepted this ridiculous conceit to such an extent that it finally became true. After so many months of endless, shameless efforts at story-genesis by a media that needed more to report at the end of a day's testimony in the world's most boring soap opera than "a police detective testified about police detective work," America was sold on the story. All of a sudden this caricature...
...seen since Lillian Gish and the other white roses of the silents. She goes pop-eyed with awe at her beau's manhood; every word she speaks is an open-mouthed kiss. She acts volcanically, as any heart does when it pumps with love. She is pure emotion, naked, shameless, unmediated by discretion. These aren't attitudes of passion; this is the genuine article, take it or leave it. Even with our quibbles, we'll take it, and embrace it as tenderly as Bess does the man whose happiness she'd die for. In its pagan fervor, this...
...even more highly charged testimonial, one from Marc Klaas, whose daughter Polly had been abducted and murdered in California. Klaas looked at the camera with burning eyes and said, "I hear people question the President's character and integrity. It's just politics." Critics described the ad as shameless. "When pundits start calling it shameless," says Knapp, "that tells me it's good." Clinton pronounced the Klaas spot even better than the Brady...