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...career fears and emotional compromises -- that rule most people's lives, but it is more photogenic. Here is the new creed: movies are pictures of stuff happening. And the uglier the stuff, the more, well, cinematic the result. Naked aggression is sexy. I shout in your face. I spit in your face. I blow off your face. I blow up your family. I blow up the city. So many films today want to begin with invective and end in apocalypse. Everybody dies; get there first. Made it, Ma! End of the world...
...problem was in the packaging. Having Buchanan spit fire on the first night of the Houston convention set up a negative image that wasn't shaken until AIDS victim Mary Fisher took the stage--and by then it was too little, too late...
...even with such excesses, current ideas for reform go too far. The Bush administration, charging that American society has become too litigious (this in spit of a downward swing in litigation since 1985), has called for a drastic overhaul of the civil justice system...
...blemishes can be erased or smoothed over. Shadows can be deepened or lightened. Images can be cloned, combined, sharpened or blurred and then painted from a palette of more than 16 million hues. The final product can be put to paper on a new generation of color printers that spit out enlargements nearly indistinguishable from those created in a darkroom...
...Carpenter's earlier ballads (When She's Gone, Middle Ground) often have the single-white- female blues, and there's a fine one here: He Thinks He'll Keep Her, a sarcastic soft rocker about a perfect wife ("Everything runs right on time, years of practice and design/ Spit and polish 'til it shines") who walks out on her husband only to find herself ignored and abused in a menial job. But Carpenter surely knows that thirtysomething angst is just half the story; a woman is not only a victim. So she has peppered her new album with anthems...