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FIRST THERE WERE the Grammies, an awards ceremony that honors merely whoever is topping the pop charts this year. Then came the more localized Bammies, or Bay Area Music Awards, honoring similarly lackluster of musicians from the once-trendsetting city of San Francisco. Other cities of equally dubious musical importance followed suit. Last week, Boston, a city whose own popular music heritage is schizophrenic at best, jumped on the bandwagon, so to speak, with its own ceremony, cleverly titled The Boston Music Awards. Granted, Boston's music scene is vital enough to deserve recognition, and some of its local artists...
Although Deaver is the second top-level Reagan official to be indicted on criminal charges,* he has earned a dubious renown for becoming the first former Government official to face charges resulting from an independent counsel's efforts. That distinction has palpable consequences: the indictment means the Federal Government will not reimburse Deaver for his staggering legal costs, now more than $500,000, unless his lawyers sue to recover them in the event that the charges are dismissed...
...life? Says Garment: "Bud wanted to make complete disclosure. He wanted to clear the air." A source who has seen the letters adds that McFarlane "felt he may have created the atmosphere" that prompted North and others to solicit funds for the contras that were at best legally dubious. In any case, the letters make clear McFarlane's despair. Says one source: "Bud was sitting down at the typewriter and blaming everything on himself. He said he was responsible in the beginning, and when the thing got out of hand, he found it impossible to stop...
DeLillo is also on dubious footing in tangling with the romantic notion of insanity as a kind of anti-societal enlightenment. Besides already having been flogged to death, the notion of the insane as somehow lucky is grotesquely unfair to real-life residents of psychiatric institutions, who suffer the completely unromantic, destructive, and painful effects of mental illness...
Getting hold of some of the personal notes that Reagan made for his memoirs was a dubious enterprise. The commission asked, the President unwisely acceded, though the precedent is probably more important than the material, rumored to be colorful but unrevealing. Reagan personally selected what he wanted the commission to see from his handwritten files and had it typed up. A ! White House courier brought the pages and sat primly by while the investigators read the notes, then returned them to the courier. Gentlemen...