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Schmeltzer was not the only non-candidate oncouncil ballots this year. A Dunster Housegrassroots campaign tried to catapult longtimenon-candidate candidate Ross Perot into studentgovernment because Harvard, too, needs to "cleanout the barn and take out the trash," as onecampaign poster...
...both cases, brawling little creatures bubble up from a little hole in the ground. T-stop? Anthill? They're the same thing. This week we're fascinated with annoying animals emerging out of nowhere. Take Ugly Kid Joe, for example. Five brain-dead members of an unknown California trash metal band suddenly find themselves splashed all over MTV. Or take Tony Gubba, our new British columnist obsessed with American popular culture and shitty sitcoms. "Tony" (not his real name) came to Harvard by way of Oxford (outta nowhere, for all practical purposes), borrowed an English game show host's moniker...
Medved has tapped into a general queasiness about pop culture, and not just from religious and social conservatives. A large segment of the public senses that the trash has risen to eye and ear level, and it smells rank. Freddy Krueger slices his way into little girls' minds, and Madonna's siren song & turns little boys into prematurely dirty men. Once the U.S. cinema was ruled by sentiment; now it is tyrannized by cynicism. Movies have assumed the omniscient sneer of a '50s greaser; they mock or duck any authority, whether the unfeeling parent, the stodgy teacher, the irrelevant clergyman...
...does it matter that Jordan Ellenberg is tall? Why does it matter that Lauren Gwin wears black? Taken in the wrong context, many of your personal descriptions could be taken as racist, sexist and generally intolerant trash. If you had any reasons for printing this stuff, you should have explained yourselves...
...home in a Lima suburb for weeks, suspecting that they were members of Peru's Maoist Shining Path guerrilla movement. Their huge purchases of food, liquor and clothing in sizes much too large for themselves suggested that they had company in the house. Butts of Winston cigarettes in the trash led the detectives to believe that the guest might be none other than the group's elusive and ruthless founder, Abimael Guzman, who went underground in the late 1970s. When the cops finally stormed the house, they found to their amazement no bodyguards or caches of weapons -- just an overweight...