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...prevent him from supporting Reagan's massive military-spending increase. By the end of last week Cheney was also fumbling for a way to explain his opposition in 1986 to a call for the release of Nelson Mandela from a South African prison. And he has been mostly silent on why he was one of only 21 House members who voted against a bill to regulate armor-piercing "cop-killer" bullets, then one of just four who voted against a ban on plastic guns that cannot be picked up by metal detectors...
...while Sommers thinks boys should be strong and silent, author William Pollack says that's just the problem. In Real Boys' Voices, Pollack points to the aggression, violence and despair among boys--who account for 75% of suicides at ages 10 to 14--as evidence that they have been silenced by society. Adults, he says, need to help boys express their confusion, hurt and anger in a "shame-free" way--whether through tears, talk, music or action...
...Another audio feed, this time entirely silent...
...refill your water bottle, and now, feeling more righteous than is good for you, you ascend purposefully and without pause to the rim and accept the silent admiration of the tourists there, who step back to let you pass. And you stride into the lodge and go to your room and shower and put on clean clothes and order a hero-size gin and tonic and sit on the balcony and look out at the canyon blazing red and orange in the sunset, and you feel a moral superiority that only time can diminish. What is a vacation...
...format is simple: just a fast-talking man (host Ed Grant) and his film clips. But this celebration of "everything from high art to low trash and back again" is the most eclectic and useful movie show on TV. Grant has spotlighted unsung or unseen European and Asian directors, silent classics, favorite divas (e.g., Tuesday Weld) and surreal rarities (a moon-walking midget on the Venezuelan variety show Sensationalissimo!). Grant also pays tribute to "deceased artistes" you might not be aware had died--or had ever lived. In an age when the megamovie blitz is annihilating the art film...