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...analysts and advertising consultants to explain why the WB has been so successful--actually increasing the size of its audience while all the other networks are losing viewers--and they will talk about market niches, brand loyalty, cable affiliates and so on. All of which is very interesting and valid but misses the point. The key to the WB's success is this: babes, male and female. With the glossy yet smoldering Sarah Michelle Gellar of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the coltish Katie Holmes of Dawson's Creek, the Phoebus-like Barry Watson of 7th Heaven and all the rest...
...prohibitions to keep in mind are: 1) no machine guns are allowed, at least not until Ted Nugent becomes Game Warden, and 2) no personal helicopters or other vehicles can be used to pursue game, as counter-intuitive and oppressive as this law may sound. Licenses and permits are valid from January 1st to December 31st, and are issued by most city clerks, Division offices and outlets, although one doesn't often witness Christy's doling out trout stamps with lottery tickets. And, due to age limits, the pint-sized Harvard Square drummer won't have a chance to spray...
...Pius' part "would have given pause to the Nazis and perhaps changed the complexion of what happened at the end of the war." McBrien contrasts Pius' silence with John Paul II's risky but successful support of Poland's Solidarity trade union in the 1980s. Some analysts speculate that valid or not, the impulse to protect Pius crippled the Vatican's March statement We Remember, a long-awaited and ultimately somewhat tepid repentance for Christian treatment of Jews up to and during the Holocaust. The document defends Pius in both its body and a spirited footnote; the refusal to acknowledge...
...claiming that the work is self-explanatory. Of course, if Basquiat's work were so literal and simpleminded, then Hoban would be correct in her implicit argument that Basquiat is more significant as a representative of his times than he is as an artist, that his art work is valid only because of the hyper, rebellious lifestyle that produced it, that Basquiat is more interesting for what he destroyed than what he created...
...find the "any interpretation is valid" argument convincing. There are instances when, as Woody Allen memorably shows us, we simply are wrong. I recognize, of course, that Ellison didn't reject my argument in the way McLuhan rejected the professor's; while "no conscious reference to Garvey" may have been intended, Ellison did considerately leave the realm of his unconscious wide open to academic scrutiny. Unfortunately, I'm no psychoanalyst...