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...talented critic about a talented artist so far this winter. But they do have a weird, banal intensity, especially in Viewing the Sculpture, 1980, where a number of chairs in a tract-home parlor survey a pressed-steel hardware-store Lazy Susan, landed in their midst like an alien life form...
...probably his biggest hit to date, has been transformed by "The 101 Strings" into dentist-office muzak, few people are familiar with Buffett's music. Fans greet each other with the same excitement that marks a meeting of, well...Harvard alumni. It's a shared experience that links otherwise alien souls...
...child Nelly, growing up in a pro-Nazi family, joins the Hitler Youth organization as a matter of course. Her religion class in school emphasizes racial purity, and the burning of the synagogue on her street evokes not pity but rather fear of alien beings. Neither does the euthanasia program provoke an outcry from the child or the parents, even when it claims the life of Nelly's feeble-minded Aunt Dottie. As Wolf makes clear, a child's morality is wholly dependent on that of the parents. A child cannot make moral judgements about the actions of her world...
...podium at last week's A.B. A. meeting in Houston, he zeroed in on a single, highly charged topic-violent crime-and let loose a broadside at the nearly "impotent society" that had failed to come to grips with it. "Why do we show such indignation over alien terrorists and such tolerance for the domestic variety...
After ten minutes of waiting for them to determine if Petya had permission to live in Leningrad, I left him to his fate. The officer demanded a bribe to prevent the police from notifying University officials of his suspicious involvement with an alien, but Petya got off without paying. He left the station about three hours later. I went straight home...