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...thought of him when, years later, people started telling me how All in the Family had changed our culture. I didn't know what people were talking about. I thought if a couple thousand years of the Judeo-Christian ethic hadn't corrected racism and lack of equal opportunity and so forth, my little half-hour situation comedy wasn't going to do it either. Then I remembered my grandfather, standing at a lake with me when I was 11 or so. I was dropping stones in the water, and my grandfather told me that each time...
...Aetia,” the Hellenistic poet Callimachus recounted how the god Apollo came to him when he started off as a poet, and warned him against the paths that carts had engraved in the earth. Nothing’s changed in the two thousand plus years since Callimachus wrote this: the artist that refuses to test boundaries is the artist whose relevance and influence quickly fades. Perhaps this is good enough for the United States of American Idol, but I can’t so easily divorce myself from my critical sense: I think it’s important...
...thousand Eurotrash monkeys at a thousand homosexual typewriters, told them to write a three-minute-long porno with cameos from a cyborg and Santa Claus, hired Jar-Jar Binks and his twin brothers as the leads, and signed on an obsessive-compulsive nine-year-old to direct the whole thing, you would be the most awe-inspiring filmmaker of all time. You would also have created the music video for “Dragostea Din Tei,” more widely known as “The Romanian Pop Song That My Floormate Plays At 4 a.m. Every Night?...
...group charged that the proceeds of Unocal’s pipeline project “fuel a brutal military dictatorship that has committed systematic rape, ethnic cleansing, and imprisonment of over a thousand political prisoners...
...tootled out Chattanooga Choo Choo. Barristers at the Old Bailey blinked uncertainly at that strange foreign phrase, "Have a nice day." And London's Daily Mail marked the occasion by proclaiming, "The loudly checked leisure suit and dime-store cigar make a welcome return to the city." Ten thousand American lawyers, and nearly as many spouses, children and friends, were on the town in London, assembled in tax-deductible (maybe) pomp and plenitude for the 107th meeting of the American Bar Association...