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...reader begins to wonder whether somewhere between writing Republican Party Reptile and this latest effort the author suffered a stroke. Left intact are O'Rourke's accustomed descriptive flair and facility for throwaway lines -- " 'dying like flies' is not a simile you'd use in Somalia. The flies wax prosperous and lead full lives." Gone, however, is any faculty for building an argument...
Genetically engineered foods can be as exotic as tomatoes with flounder genes, corn with firefly genes or potatoes with wax moth genes...
...same theater and saw the same mass-produced Hollywood moneymaker does not true love make. The good thing about a film is that it offers you an easy topic for conversation over coffee afterwards. If the film is great, you can both wax eloquent about it. If it was terrible, you can heap vitriol and scorn on it together. Read a review in advance, so that you have at least one intelligent thing to say no matter what ("Say, don't you think this was the most insightful commentary on Generation X since 'Reality Bites?'") After that is over...
...tawdry age, one can almost wax nostalgic about a time when Charles Van Doren could cause nationwide outrage. For a few months in 1956 and 1957 he became a celebrity by remaining champion for weeks on a television quiz program called Twenty-One. In the process he won $129,000 and 500 marriage proposals. But two years later he admitted to a congressional committee that he had been fed the answers by the show's producers. Compared with the participants in today's scandals, Van Doren seems more pathetic than notorious; compared with contemporary affronts to our sensibilities, his misdeeds...
Edward F. Mulkenn III '96 doesn't often wax poetic...