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Maybe a taste of the Big Apple is the tonic that the Harvard men's basketball team needs to end its disastrous 10-game losing streak...
NAFTA boosters have noted all along that when dollars head south, it means American consumers are enjoying lower prices. Critics deemed this anti- inflationary tonic a bourgeois concern, cold comfort to workers who lost jobs in the process. But 1994 brought a blunt reminder that when we fail to subdue inflation, the Federal Reserve will step in; and its favorite weapon, higher interest rates, will surely cost jobs in the long run. Thus today's gain for consumers may be tomorrow's gain for workers (not to mention the fact that most consumers are workers...
Such an attitude seems just the tonic needed to soothe the team's national championship concerns. Granted, the regular season has yet to begin, but those are the pressures that face every Harvard captain, and Coughlin takes the reins as if brought up that...
After a decade of smart people playing dumb (the David Letterman syndrome), it's a tonic to watch a show whose creators are unafraid to parade their erudition. MST3K, which is incorporated under the apt moniker Best Brains, Inc., is for snobs and slackers -- a crash course in popular culture, high and low. Pay attention, for without warning or footnoting you may hear allusions to Thomas Pynchon, Susan Faludi, Joseph Campbell, Jenny Holzer, Andrew Sarris or Anna Kisselgoff. A starlet bathing in a lake suggests "Fanne Foxe in a Maxfield Parrish painting." And don't worry if some...
...first place? Why was she allowed to write such crap? (For example: "When I was with Abel, I felt like ice cream in a bowl.") Why have the forces of marketing aimed this jeremiad straight at us (the young, privileged, and talented), apparently thinking it's just the tonic we need...