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...does the first property of forbidden speech include only those insults that are based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability age or national origin? What about insults that are based on a student's physical appearance, academic performance, wealth or lack thereof, intelligence, social ineptitude, etc." Why should these kinds of insults not also be prohibited, if the Law School's goals is to promote a less intimidating, demeaning, degrading, hostile and seriously offensive environment? Why not also prohibit all nasty or even mildly insulting language? What about redness and unfriendliness...
...artificial circularity created by this ploy is echoed by Benitez's laborious progress through all possible rites of passage--births, weddings, funerals, feasts--in an obvious attempt to show the circularity of life from death to rebirth, tragedy to hope, etc. Another grand theme of this novel is the attempt to use the sea as a link between the little village and the world at large, using the notion of the sea as a universal constant to extrapolate this story into a commentary on human Existence. To quote the blurb on the jacket of this book, Benitez is trying...
...sort of a smaller version of the release of In Utero or Vs. earlier this fall. How would these laid-back rockers respond to the crazed success heaped upon them by the musical industry and the American public, we wondered? Would there be another "Smells Like Teen Spirit," etc. etc...
...stage and sings different words, and every time it's just as great." He has been accused of singing nonsense; the liner notes in his records include lists of words which have no relation to one another aside from sounding similar ("Close Shave. Chess Leave. Clove Leash." etc). But it doesn't sound like nonsense to me. While any one song might not have a coherent "plot," such as boy-meets-girl or man-hit-the-road, which can get kind of boring anyway, Malkmus' songs are surreal glimpses into a sensibility to contemporary American life that could only...
...Sammy, who all have just graduated from college and are now trying to make it in the real world. Leleina intends her video to be a serious consideration of the many issues which confront the twenty-somethings of today--you know: AIDS, homosexuality, McJobs, alternative music, cheesy television, etc.--and Michael thinks this video would be just the thing to get In Your Face TV going...