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First, don't lose your head. I'm speaking here of intellectual fashion, of the alarming regularity with which the chattering classes are swept away by the periodic enthusiasms that wash over the culture...
Some studio bosses worry about missing the next big wave -- if the Kindly Kid genre is a wave and not a wash. Others may feel responsibility for young viewers, especially those in their own family; they don't want their five- year-olds on a couch two decades from now telling a psychiatrist, "It was those R-rated thrillers my daddy green-lighted that warped my life." It may be that a few moguls are hitting their midlife-crisis stride. They're tired of making vicious junk that passes for adventure. They'll feel better if they make innocuous junk...
...cars in the shadows, calculating the night's take. But not all the pimps are gangsters. Often it is Father who sits in the backup car or Mother who negotiates the deal for her daughter. Little Brother may appear with a sponge and a pail of soapy water to wash a client's car for an extra...
Other events have split the Penn campus. In 1988 Hackney defended a campus visit by hatemongering Louis Farrakhan. In April, when gay advocates chalked sexually explicit and antireligious phrases on the main campus sidewalk, maintenance workers were forbidden to wash off the graffiti in the interest of gay free speech...
...never very animated, like he was just trying to appease me," says Andre L. Williams '89, a Miami attorney, who says he was harassed by Harvard and Cambridge police on a shuttle bus in the spring of 1989. "Johnson was just trying to wash his hands...