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After the three briefly showed pieces of their work on a video screen, Blue Man Chris Wink spoke for an hour about the group's underlying philosophy...
...Wink described the Blue Man dynamic as an attempt to oscillate between heroism and "clownicity" without falling into the last of the three categories in their taxonomy: "regular people...
Heroes are driven by a sense of purpose, while clowns are content to simply be who they are, Wink said. Regular people are merely trying to avoid the unpleasantness of outside examination...
...Discretionary enforcement was out of hand," says NRC acting Inspector General Leo Norton, who investigates agency wrongdoing but has no power to punish. "We shouldn't have regulations on the books and then ignore or wink at them...
...while one can wink at this kind of officially sanctioned primitivism, there is one outbreak of officially sanctioned primitivism that is not benign and that cannot be winked at: the sensational "abuse" trials in which teachers and parents are jailed on the most improbable charges of ritualistic, orgiastic Satanism since the Salem witch trials...