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...religion whatever, including Judaism. As for politics, he left little doubt and said so plainly in his late--and still best known--essay, Civilization and Its Discontents (1930), noting that the human animal, with its insatiable needs, must always remain an enemy to organized society, which exists largely to tamp down sexual and aggressive desires. At best, civilized living is a compromise between wishes and repression--not a comfortable doctrine. It ensures that Freud, taken straight, will never become truly popular, even if today we all speak Freud...
...successor. Salinas picked Colosio, who then headed the government's social development secretariat last November, and most experts considered his election close to a sure thing. Now, only five months before the balloting, the P.R.I. has to find another candidate quickly, not only to resume campaigning but also to tamp down the tide of anxiety and insecurity. Uncharacteristically cooperative, the eight candidates suspended their campaigns...
...They side with the aristocrats of style -- the haunted prince of B&B and Gomez, a suave prince of darkness -- against the booboisie that presumes to understand and overthrow them. The films' makers are saying that style is what matters. The Beast must learn to chew his food and tamp down his temper and dance without crushing Belle before she can accept him. As for Gomez and Morticia, who moonily recall their first date ("a boy, a girl, an open grave") and rhapsodize about their last ("our lifeless bodies rotting together for all eternity"), they have kept romance fresh...
Then Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold) comes to the Mantle fertility clinic. She is a famous actress with a healthy sexual appetite, a trifurcate cervix and the desperate yen to bear a child. Desire stirs Bev's instincts; propriety tries to tamp them down. It is a dangerous move to admit someone besides Ellie into his secret life. Love for an outsider will distort the twins' delicate imbalance. They had been complementary halves of one identity: body and mind, | curiosity and compassion, sex and guilt, Don Juan and Don Knotts. Now the seesaw must tip from sanity to psychosis...
...baggage claim. It is the challenge of any parent accompanying a child to central Florida: making sure rapturous expectations are not soured by the long lines, infant attention spans and high technology on the fritz. Standing at the entrance to Orlando's Sea World, another father tried to tamp his daughter's restless anticipation: "Hyper down, honey--we're only gonna see a lot of fish...