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...movies: stars light up our lives. A film actor, just by staring out of the screen and into our souls, can touch the deep pulse in any spectator. Our admiration segues into identification. "That's me up there," the filmgoer can believe, "me as I'd love to look, dare to act, hope to be." And for kids, always looking for lessons in moral etiquette, young actors can become the arbiters of glamour. Their bodies are temples to which anyone may bring offerings. Brat Packers' offscreen exploits fulfill a legend that fits Hollywood's melodramatic taste and tempo. They...
...interview show. Hardly anyone noticed, and the idea seemed dead. But then Clinton went on what amounted to a campaign swing for NAFTA; after he had finished a speech to factory workers in Lexington, Kentucky, last Thursday, the President, in his best jaw-jutting, finger-pointing style, issued a dare: he recalled Gore's challenge and said, "Let's see if he ((Perot)) takes...
...what was supposed to be a White House media event last Wednesday; so far as the public noticed, he might just as well have convened a meeting of stamp collectors. Indeed, it may have been annoyance at his failure to catch the people's ear that prompted Clinton to dare Perot the next day. And that did, for almost the first time, suddenly put NAFTA on all the TV news and talk shows and all the front pages...
...university has bestowed upon him--he would place himself above others in the eyes of God. The question is not, should civil rights be extended to gays, lesbians or any sexual minority (which is perhaps an issue of valid political and legal debate). The question is how Mansfield could dare to presume to cast judgment upon an entire group of people--a group of people who have nothing more in common than their desire to love one another. You discuss narcissism in your essay. I can think of nothing more narcissistic than to assert that one's own identity...
...plans for retirement soon, knows what he's up against. "I could walk into the Senate with a headband in Japanese lettering, salute the Emperor and go to my death offering major deficit reduction," he laments. Should a ceremonial sword be the prize for lawmakers who dare to give voters what voters claim to want...