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This is Weiss's key point. Man is a brute and he always will be; his ideological fervor is only inspired by latent lust and violence. As Sade himself quips, "People join revolutions when the adrenaline builds up." The radical soapbox priest, Jacques Roux, is played by a vociferous, apoplectic inmate (Kristen Gasser) who is restrained by a gag. Aroused by Corday's ghoulish description of a beheading she witnessed in Paris, the patients play at guillotining each other, tossing about a large red ball--a dismembered head--and tittering like demons...
...fairness or taste; at least four others have canceled outright. Said Bob Peterson, editorial-page editor of California's Chico Enterprise-Record (circ. 27,000), which dropped Doonesbury after touting its return: "It got progressively more biased. Trudeau is using a comic strip for a personal political soapbox." Still, the strip appears in 823 papers, its alltime high. Says Executive Editor Heath Meriwether of the Miami Herald: "Trudeau spares no one. That's what you get when you buy Doonesbury...
Indeed, the Dallas convention is likely to be as much a soapbox for 1988 presidential hopefuls as a last hurrah for the reigning party patriarch. First up will be Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, who is leaving Capitol Hill at year's end to position himself for a run at the White House. Says a Baker aide: "The bottom Line for him is to walk out of the convention having shown that he has a little more fire in him than people thought." Kansas Senator Robert Dole, Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976, and New York Congressman...
Indeed, the press was by no means of one like mind on the blackout. "Rather than mount ing a constitutional soapbox," said the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, "the press might better spend its time contemplating why it was not informed and in vited." The St. Louis Globe-Democrat volunteered a blunt explanation: "... the television networks' antidefense bias." Declared conservative Columnist Patrick J. Buchanan: "If senior U.S. commanders running this operation harbor a deep distrust of the American press, theirs is not an unmerited contempt...
...Will Always Stay Me: Writing of Migrant Children would seem an ideal opportunity for a soapbox edition of children's poetry. A collaboration between Robert Coles, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, and Sherry Kafka, a former Loeb Fellow, the anthology was born in a creative workshop program in South Texas elementary and high schools, where most of the students are from Mexican immigrant families and speak English as a foreign language. And yet Kafka's preface immediately clears the book of any charge of smugness: "The selections...were chosen because they were the most representative of the writing...