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...been simply worn out from overuse. The movie does not even attempt to reupholster the cliches. How many more times can Japanese characters be depicted as fanatical samurais or as bonsai-loving mystics before the laughs run out? Or how about the lumbering rookie who hails from the cultural vacuum of Midwestern farmland? And the proctology jokes...
Perhaps it might be nice if people could evaluate all arguments in a vacuum. But this is entirely irrelevant, because it will never happen. In the structure of human discourse, messenger and message are inextricably linked, for better or for worse...
...When asked to name "the most important black leader today," 9% of those polled volunteered his name -- more than for anyone except Jackson and three times as many as Nelson Mandela. To some extent, admittedly, these results reflect a lack of broad-based, high-profile black leaders. But that vacuum only makes Farrakhan more important, and his hateful words more potent...
...transition leaves a vacuum for smaller, more specifically issue-oriented groups to fill, students say, and many campus women's groups applaud the move...
Principle drafted in a vacuum are of little value, The lofty concept of rejecting "aggression and ethnic cleansing" sounds very appealing. The problem is, the principle ignores the price...