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JUST BECAUSE the definition of obscenity is so vague, if it can be defined at all, promising not to be obscene is absolutely useless. The art world probably would benefit more if artists were forced to sign pledges promising not to be boring, rather than not to be obscene. The Helms rules amount to an unjustifiable prior restraint on free expression...
Even food aid would be almost useless, since the primary cause of the Soviet Union's meat and vegetable shortage is its primitive storage and distribution system. More than half of all fruits and vegetables end up unfit for human consumption, and the same thing would inevitably happen to American shipments. Mikhail Gorbachev's path to salvation must lead away from centralized socialist planning and toward a market economy. Any future American assistance will probably be aimed at pushing him down that road...
...player cooling his heels on the sidelines for a half an hour while his opponent hits through. Darryl Zanuck, one of old Hollywood's croquet fanatics, who included Harpo Marx, Samuel Goldwyn and Louis Jourdan, described the predicament: "When you're three-ball dead, you're just a useless...
...Father dictated one reel after another, he began to agonize about what would happen to his memoirs. "It's all in vain," he would say during our Sunday walks. "Our efforts are useless. Everything's going to be lost. As soon as I die, they'll take it away and destroy it, or bury it so deep that there'll be no trace of it." Deep down I agreed with him. The fact that everything was quiet now didn't mean that it would continue that way forever...
Robinson also relayed Prejean's request to speak to Roemer directly. The Governor resisted, saying it was useless, but he soon relented. There is no record of that conversation. Earlier in the week, though, Prejean had explained what he desperately wanted to tell Roemer. "I'd like to have a chance at life," he said in slow, simple sentences. "To live with my mistakes. We all make mistakes in life. Some bigger than others. I'd like to give something back to society. I've changed. There's a whole difference between being...