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...visited all of them together. I was cheered by the activity in some; at others the rows of zombie-like elderly folk in wheelchairs lined up at the front door depressed me. There is no formula for choosing one. You have to inspect them thoroughly, check into state-agency reports--and ask, ask, ask questions. What's the ratio between staff and residents? Is there a doctor? What's the food like? (Eat there!) What kind of entertainment is available? (Go sample it!) What happens if my parent develops dementia? Will he be kicked out or moved to another, escalated...
Maybe the Depression made Hollywood do it. Most of the studios were losing money by 1932 (RKO declared bankruptcy), and racy films brought in the money. But they also fanned the ire of state and local censorship boards. In 1934 the new Production Code had teeth, and under Joseph I. Breen, a former newspaperman, it bit hard. Dialogue was denatured from snappy to sappy; gowns hid what they once revealed; evil lost a lot of its seductive plausibility. And as studios sought to rerelease their pre-Code films, Breen insisted that cuts be made in the master negative, thus censoring...
Surely a man as intelligent as Rosenblatt must realize there is no way of getting rid of handguns short of America's becoming a police state. Americans should be embracing guns. High schools in all 50 states should give elective courses on weapons safety and gun laws. FRED S. LOEPER Sendai, Japan...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN No individual in all of history, completely on his own, using only the power of one, has changed the lives of more people than Soviet dissident writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Lenin set the stage by creating the first totalitarian socialist state system of concentration camps, which exterminated 60 million Soviet citizens in 50 years. Solzhenitsyn survived eight years in prison camps and three years of internal exile and, in secret, wrote The Gulag Archipelago, revealing for the first time the existence of this chain ("archipelago") of death mills. The moment the manuscript of the book's first volume...
Skaneateles, pronounced "skinny atlas," formerly just another sleepy town in northwestern New York State, plays host to the First Family next week. The Clintons will vacation at the home of real estate developer Thomas McDonald (1), but because they haven't yet officially notified the town of their trip, no activities have been planned. What can the Clintons do? Some suggestions: Krebs' (2) is the best spot to blend in with the locals and quaff a brew. If Hillary is looking for a light bite, Angel's Heavenly Hamburgers (3) already has a sandwich named after...