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...closely linked to current events, with the occasional bit of controversy thrown in for good measure. Its bright, wearyingly busy covers are increasingly and (for this writer, who misses the sedate Cape Cod cottage exteriors) inexplicably monopolized by Art Spiegelman's relentlessly contemporary artwork. The screaming covers are a tacit capitulation to the dictates of commerce, increasingly reflective of the need to compete in that bustling souk known as Out Of Town News...
Celebrity spokespeople are held only to a loose, don't-ask-don't-tell standard of credibility. Bill Cosby doesn't really serve Jell-O chocolate pudding at dinner parties? Duhhh. Almost nobody is naive enough anymore to believe the tacit advertising shams, but neither are celebrity endorsements registered as falsehoods -- at least as long as the untruths aren't thrown in our faces. Only when vegetarian Cybill Shepherd served as a spokesperson for the beef industry did the commercial lie become insuperable...
...scheduled to be sentenced for drug dealing stormed the federal courthouse in Topeka, Kansas, firing two guns . and lobbing pipe bombs. Before Jack McKnight, 37, killed himself by detonating explosives strapped to his body, he killed a security guard and wounded five people. "There's now a tacit assumption that people can vent their frustrations almost anywhere," says Dr. Allwyn Levine, a New Jersey psychiatrist. "We've become a much more lawless society...
...have meaning only to the extent that you guarantee the right to life and protect the human person," declared John Paul. Following their 45-minute meeting, the Pontiff again appealed publicly for "the right to life,"surprising the President and his aides, who had thought abortion would be a tacit agree-to-disagree point on the agenda...
...along when they talk. They keep things light, genial, talking around the issues that burn them up inside. Some love affairs never begin because people are afraid to reveal what they feel; "I love you" is so hard to say. Some marriages can last a lifetime on the tacit agreement that hostilities will go unexpressed. The static is in the silences...