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...nickel, please, for every TV commentator who used the phrase "orderly passage of power.") But this Inauguration Day seemed more of a pretense than usual--the disjuncture between what was going on and what was really going on starker, like one of those neo-Freudian sophomoric plays of the 1950s in which characters speak their lines, then say what they are thinking under the lines...
...Utilitarianism: 1950s Plastic means mass production, and nerdiness rules...
...Alaska and signed last year by President Clinton. Stevens has promised to use his position as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee to fund the program. There doesn't seem to be much time for failure. Better technology drove the world catch from 20 million tons in the 1950s to more than 85 million tons by the end of the 1980s, but the harvest has been shrinking throughout this decade. The declines are not simply a result of overfishing, but also of practices that destroy the ocean-floor habitats that feed and protect schools of commercial fish. Factory trawlers scare...
...Alabama had held a referendum on segregation in the 1950s or on slavery in the 1850s, wickedness would have won each time. Krauthammer calls it "democracy" when a numerically stronger group (whites) forces the numerically weaker group (blacks) to do its will. Enlightened men call it tyranny. JONATHAN FARLEY Berkeley, California...
...Night Neither the time (the 1950s) nor the place (the Jersey Shore) is propitious for a gourmet Italian restaurant. But the struggles of the immigrant Pilaggi brothers to impose their delicate risottos on a red-sauce culture are perhaps the year's most unlikely success. Primo, the chef (Tony Shalhoub), has the soul of an artist--watchful, uncompromising, mildly depressive. Secondo, the maitre d' (Stanley Tucci, who, with Campbell Scott, wrote and directed), is trying vainly to be an American entrepreneur. Stumbling toward bankruptcy, they also sail toward wisdom in this beautifully acted and utterly delicious comedy of--shall...