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...onto the tail of another, and another, and another, changes instantly when the names of certain cops, or that judge, are uttered. His eyes bug out, his neck tenses, and another Myles, a chilling character, crawls out of his skin. He breathes fire when he calls the judge "a vapid windbag and a pathetic martinet...
...course, there are exceptions. There are shows that do right by television, that challenge its "idiot box" reputation. No matter how popular it has become to blast TV as a vapid medium, it's impossible to ignore the basic integrity and ingenuity of shows like Homicide, NYPD Blue, Dennis Miller Live, Conan O'Brien, Law & Order, Seinfeld, The Simpsons... . The list goes...
Unfortunately, the vast majority of what makes up the quality-of-life problem here is beyond the reach of the law. As a native Angeleno, I'm used to a certain vapid goodwill between people in public places. Just because there are so few places where people are forced to meet strangers--nearly everyone lives in a tract house and drives a car, or seems to--L.A.'s public spaces are voluntary, even happy ones: the beach, the amusement park, above all the mall. Or maybe it's just the climate--it's easier to be mellow under bright, clear...
...fell to the Great Polarizer to describe all this accurately. Dole's campaign, said Pat Buchanan in the South Carolina debate, is "vapid" and "hollow"--as the candidate demonstrated when he blew a particularly ripe opportunity last week. With Buchanan pushing his nativist protectionism elsewhere in the state, Dole toured the bustling BMW plant near Spartanburg, a symbol of South Carolina's embrace of the global economy. "It was a perfect chance to hit a home run for free trade and the interconnected world economy," says Governor David Beasley, an energetic Dole supporter. So what did Dole do? Nothing...
Snowboard fashion, both male and female, is hot, and so, believe it or not, is snowboard literature. Surfing the Himalayas, a vapid, new-age novella written by Frederick Lenz (a discredited guru once known as Rama), is surfing the best-seller lists. The book tells of how a snowboarder and a monk known as Master Fwap come to a mutual understanding after the rider knocks the monk down. In that regard, the book mirrors the new age on the slopes. "The war is over," says Bob Gillen, the marketing director for Stowe. "There is peace in our time...