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...seems little affected by the much publicized turmoil that has plagued the Roseanne set. While Barr has staged tantrums, battled with producers and talked about quitting, Goodman has been a stabilizing force through his sheer professionalism. "I just don't involve myself," he says. "Roseanne is committed to doing a quality show on her own terms, and she's got her terms. I'm an actor and a reactor. I do what they set down in front...
...sheer impossibility of establishing positive criteria to distinguish "worth less speech" from "speech with redeeming value" should preclude the establishment of any body empowered to make such distinctions...
...women's studies at Harvard will continue to be a nonentity, kept alive by the sheer buoyancy of professors' and students' interests in the field even as the administrators and old-line senior faculty remain able to prevent its expansion...
...breaking-and-entering that we invite by having telephones in the first place. Someone unbidden barges in and for an instant or an hour usurps the ears and upsets the mind's prior arrangements. Life proceeds in particles, not waves. The author Cyril Connolly wrote lugubriously about the sheer intimacy of intrusion that a telephone can manage. "Complete physical union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide -- and yet not quite real, for it stops when the telephone rings...
...telephone the greatest invention in the history of the world? Forget its existential oppressions (the disruptions, the discontinuities of mind, or, if you want to look for trouble, the horrifying thought of the sheer obliterating noise that would be made if all the telephone conversations of the earth at a given moment were audible at once). All of that is nattering. The telephone, with the fluidities of information that it has enabled, has proved to be a promiscuously, irrepressibly democratic force, a kinetic object with the mysterious purity to change the world. The telephone, like the authority to kill, might...