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...more than the sum of the parts. The Cop Killer controversy is an example of negative synergy. People get mad at Cop Killer and start boycotting the movie Batman Returns. A reviewer praises Cop Killer ("Tracy Marrow's poetry takes a switchblade and deftly slices life's jugular," etc.), and TIME is accused of corruption instead of mere foolishness. Senior Time Warner executives find themselves under attack for -- and defending -- products of their company they neither honestly care for nor really understand, and doubtless weren't even aware of before controversy...
...along, apparently having lost any ability to be shocked by such hateful stuff. I suppose a GWAR defender could take up the predictable argument that the band's act simply redicules the misogyny and violence that pervades our culture, giving us back our own prejudices magnified to hideous proportions, etc., etc...
...following in our dorm. I think people enjoyed the notes because they were so inexplicable--I certainly didn't have any explanation. My enthusiasm for college was tempered with some hard realities. I had a hard time with the work, didn't meet as many people as I wanted, etc. Charmaine and I remained distant friends and I began to get to know Jenny pretty well. But orientation week ended, and that easy familiarity with which a first-year could approach a stranger in the Union and strike up a conversation hardened into intense romances and newly-founded social cliques...
Despite the brilliant special effects during the fight scenes (Whap! Zonk! Boof! flashing across the screen), the show was pretty one-dimensional. Batman was good and noble, Robin was good and dorky. Together, the two foiled the mischievous intentions of a host of stock bad guys: Joker, Penguin, Catwoman, etc. (In a rare appearance, the Mad Hatter was featured in the show...
Carvalho's attorney, Edward J. O'Connell, maintained that the permit obtained by TCBY to sell fast-order "frozen yogurt, pies, coffee, etc." should continue to apply to Dunkin' Donuts...