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...Lace Sleeves," about thinking the world is what they say it is in movies or in the paper, and finding out it's all a sordid, ugly sham, the way Elvis did when all those record executives refused to look beyond his slightly spastic exterior--"Good manners and bad breath will get you nowhere." The world sullied Elvis's new lace sleeves a long time ago and he still hasn't gotten over it: the song is like a river of tears, and Elvis's vocal is the most expressive of his career, choked yet fluent, cynical yet deeply innocent...
...over gun control, pro and con, is dominated by facile slogans, contradictory statistics and arguments that owe as much to passion as to reason. The only consensus is that the present patchwork of nearly 25,000 gun regulations-most at the state and local levels-is a costly, bothersome sham. Practically speaking, any person with $10 in cash can find someone to sell him one of America's great equalizers, the handguns that are responsible for half the nation's murders...
...black Americans have a richly independent culture quite apart from the one that has been imposed upon them, a culture made up of its own music, language, a common past. With a history of such guilt and hate between them, why should black and white persist in a sham? Why should they not go their separate-but-equal ways...
...Deer Hunter turned in a healthy profit and won the New York Film Critics Award and the Oscar as Best Picture of the Year. But the Quandary aside, Fort Apache, despite its emotional jerry-rigging, stands as a silly sham and a dismal artistic failure...
...World students are conspicuously "separatist," as some "perceive," it is only because Harvard admits a consciusly small number of minorities. The Gomes report skirts the issue of minority admissions, so vital to increasing cooperation, understanding and consciousness. In this regard, we stop just short of labeling the report a sham. While it recognizes that legitimate, unmet needs exist, it refuses to be accountable for meeting those needs...