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A final possibility for the lemming-like race toward Wall Street is that two years in a high paying job in New York City is an attractive path with little resistance. This is another unappealing answer; further, it is incongruous with the leadership ability, creativity and capacity for original thought...
In fact, this rodent's fealty has earned it lasting infamy. To follow someone or something unquestioningly is to behave like a lemming marching en masse to its own death.
It has taken only six months for the average American baseball fan to exchange his or her guarded loyalty for lemming-hood. The protests and low attendance figures that greeted players and owners at the beginning of this strike-shortened season have been replaced by the annual rite of pennant...
Those mediocre programs taught a generation how to look at moving pictures and how to avoid social reality. The new big-screen sitcoms simply recognize TV's triumph of the banal. A few good movies (The Fugitive, The Addams Family, Wayne's World) may emerge from Naked Trend 4. But...
The real question is whether a "V" label -- like an R or NC-17 rating for feature films -- will become a stigma to be avoided at almost all costs. The fear is that advertisers, always skittish about controversial programs that might inspire a letter-writing campaign or an advertiser boycott...