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...hadn't been for affirmative action; they saw it as something which lay beyond their reach., I have tutored eighth graders who can barely read at a third-grade level because the Asian languages which are their mother tongues are so different from English. Don't you dare tell me that their ethnicity has not left them at a disadvantage. And if they every apply to law school, Mr. Ramos, I hope to God that they get the benefit of affirmative action...
...Democratic President, a confluence Clinton promised would end government gridlock. In speaking with Congress's Pooh-Bahs, the President-elect's people have heard the following advice, almost uniformly: Clinton must get the deficit down, and Congress is ready to help. O.K. so far. But don't you dare try raising taxes beyond the new levies on the rich that Clinton spoke about during the campaign. Oh? Well, then, which spending programs would Congress support cutting? "Boy, that's tough," said a senior Democratic Senator...
...Marines are worrying more about showers and mail. They have not had either since landing. But missing Christmas is their biggest gripe. They joke about the number of shopping days left and dare one another to swim home. U.S.M.C., they say, stands for "You Suckers Missed Christmas...
...sharpest zingers are directed at the National Endowment (a funder of Sullivan's show) and at what Sullivan calls "the process of both censorship and self-censorship," as when the imaginary troupe's artistic director cites the works she dare not mount except in bowdlerized form. In the play within the play, the actual inspector arrives just in time to see the fiasco and adores it, despite getting knocked unconscious in the melee: she perceives a deep expression of the decline of Western civilization and a succession of welcome bows to political correctness...
...MOST GLORIOUS COMIC ACTING ON film, Peter O'Toole played a washed-up swashbuckling movie star, raddled with debauchery yet oddly innocent. The man journeyed hours to glimpse an estranged daughter but did not dare speak to her and dismissed his screen heroism as fakery until he thrillingly discovered that it, like all art, came from deep within. The barren Broadway musical of MY FAVORITE YEAR, which opened last week, turns O'Toole's holy hellion into a soulless self-pitier (a deft if charmless Tim Curry) and wrongly presumes that the film's appeal was its setting amid...