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...PAINTED WITH VIVID stripes and a rising sun, plies the drearier streets of New Haven, Conn., drawing eager throngs like some dark version of the Good Humor truck. Four times a week, the "dope fiends," as they call themselves, line up to enter the vehicle. They identify themselves to city workers by their code names ("Carol Burnett," "Streetcat," "Wizard") and, in exchange for used needles, receive survival kits: bottles of bleach, bottles of water, clean needles, and condoms. They do this because they are terrified of the epidemic that is raging through their city. "Just because I shoot drugs doesn...
...Huxtable is gone. What are Americans to do for fathers? Ronald Reagan was a hologram of American Dad. George Bush is, so to speak, a less vivid absence than Reagan. He seems to be away a lot, either physically or morally. When he does come home to try to focus, Americans almost wish he would not: He has been going too often into his '50s flustery, dufus mode. Mario Cuomo is the only Democrat who looks and talks like a father, but he refused to accept the role, and that amounted to abandonment. He left the Democratic race...
...sickened that it would have abandoned the struggle. The country might have split into the United States and the Confederate States; slavery might have survived a long time. Some think seeing executions on television would so repel the public that it would abolish capital punishment. Some believe showing such vivid evidence of the punishment would deter people from committing the crimes. Perhaps. Or would televised executions become something like what they were once -- grisly popular entertainments...
...staying out of other people's business, suppressing his darkest rages and heeding a back-street seeress who purports to be 322 years old. He is at once dignified and absurd, wrongheaded and admirable. It is such affectionate ambivalence toward all the characters that makes Wilson's play a vivid and uplifting tone poem and never a mere polemic. W.A.H.III
...these vivid messes harmless? Is it possible that these agonistics serve a higher purpose? Maybe. One of the motifs of American life in the late 20th century is a sad, destructive disconnection. The fraying of family and community is visible in homelessness and granny dumping and children shooting other children without even attaching much importance to the act. It is evident this year in Americans' disgusted alienation from the presidential campaign...