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What gets me about this whole thing is the hypocrisy of the anti-boring movement. America is a boring and lazy society and there's no shame in that. Doubtless the Japanese will surpass us in most things if they haven't already. So what? It just means that their culture is adaptively superior to ours. To say that Americans are slothful and boring isn't any sort of value judgement. Boring isn't a pejorative term, it's just a state of being, and there should be no stigma attached...
...young, gifted and black in America today is to live poised on a cruelly honed knife-edge. There are doubtless more opportunities than ever for bright, ambitious kids to escape the ghetto. But the chances of being wasted by random violence have also increased. In his remarkable debut film, BOYZ N THE HOOD (as in neighborhood), writer-director John Singleton, 23, maps gang-ridden South Central Los Angeles with a cartographer's cool realism. But what gives powerful resonance to his film -- whose opening was accompanied by shootings in theaters across the U.S. that left at least one dead...
Literalists criticize Thelma's erotic awakening because, they say, it could not happen so soon after the trauma of near rape. Doubtless that would be true in circumstances less special than the ones the movie sets up. The point it's insisting on is that a sudden access of freedom is eroticizing as well as empowering...
...Doubtless one reason for Robb's consternation is that some of his advisers had considered the tape a potential weapon against Wilder. Instead it became a boomerang. The conversation was intercepted in October 1988, while Wilder was still lieutenant governor and Robb was running for the Senate. Though allied in most campaigns, the two had also skirmished for years. In the taped conversation, Wilder pronounced Robb "finished" because of reports of his presence at cocaine parties in Virginia Beach. Talking about his own 1989 race for Governor, Wilder said, "I don't want his endorsement, don't need his endorsement...
...Congress last week, California's Garamendi pleaded for aid for the victims of Executive Life's collapse. Garamendi contended that the PBGC bears some responsibility for those annuity payments, since it supervised the termination of pension plans in which federally guaranteed benefits were replaced by insurance annuities. Said he: "Doubtless there are some villains in this piece. Venal businessmen, negligent regulators, careless rating companies, crafty accountants and lawyers, greedy pension-plan sponsors are all candidates, and if punishment is due, it should be meted out. But that's not going to solve the giant human problem we face. None...