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...Before, something would happen and people around here would start to get nervous," said Malibu stockbroker David Mizrahi, setting off on foot across a bridge closed to car traffic because of cracks. (If this had been a movie, the sound track would swell about now with the scraping of mud shovels and the rush of tributaries newly sprung to life.) "This time, after going through the quakes and the fires and the other floods, everyone just threw up their hands and said let it happen, we'll deal with the consequences later...
Unless you happen to be a tribal elder with a taste for geological metaphors. To the old chief, Tristan is the rock everyone "broke themselves against," and a good thing too, since from their suffering he gains "his honor and a long life." Swell, but we're left with our stifled laughter and a very long movie...
That things in Mass Hall were swell...
Academics ought to have a longer shelf life than pop stars. So maybe Madonna wasn't such a swell role model for Camille Paglia, a humanities professor at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. Sexual Personae, a rambunctious survey of gender identities published in 1990, made Paglia into feminism's Material Girl. In a whiny time that sanctified women as victims, she celebrated woman's erotic and emotional majesty. Just like that, she was the hot intellectual starlet...
...always, Reagan gave it a wonderful Hollywood twist. "I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life," he wrote. "I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead." The swell of sympathy and affection was instantaneous and overwhelming, from the man on the street to Bill Clinton. Speaking Saturday night at a political rally in Oakland, California, the President said that Reagan's letter had "touched my heart," and the news brought gasps from the crowd of Democrats...