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...results of these tests are valid, the only thing they indicate to me is that the cultural forces that serve to create mindless sex objects out of 51 % of the population are strong, yes, very strong indeed...
Ronstadt is one of the most innovative and sophisticated country singers around. If anything can save country music from the mindless banality of the Conway Twittys and Bill Andersons who now dominate the industry, it is Ronstadt and other "progressive" country singers like Willie Nelson and Emmylou Harris. Teaming up with Harris, Ronstadt is by now so self-assured that she can lay back and let her partner carry half the load on "The Sweetest Gift," a touchingly simple balled about a mother who visits her son in jail, with an uncontemporary message...
Police prose is a burlesque of the administrative: "I apprehended the alleged perpetrator." (In a bar, the cop would say, "I collared this creep.") Eventually, all officialese takes on a mindless life of its own, the words combining and recombining according to some notion in the bureaucratic inner ear of how public language ought to sound, regardless (or irregardless, as they say) of what it means. This is an aerosol English, released by pushing a button. Writer Jimmy Breslin describes what is perhaps the ultimate in this prose: a policeman, testifying in a homicide case, refers to "the alleged victim...
...runs south to Grenada 60 miles away. Braced against the wheel, refreshed with iced milk punch (embellished on the label with a crude drawing of a hairy fist), and watching the flying fish skitter like fusiform silver bugs from the indigo waves, you slip into the most delectable and mindless of rhythms. That can be a mistake, even for real captains: one bright afternoon in 1971, the Antilles, a 20,000-ton French cruise liner, rammed a reef between the islands of Mustique and Carriacou at full steam, and its hulk still lies in the sun as a sobering memento...
...enforced mass exodus from the capital was carried out, it seemed, in desperate, mindless haste. The rice harvest will not be in until November. What will the millions of refugees in the countryside eat between now and then? If the new government refuses foreign aid, as it has said it will do, who will provide the seed for next year's crop? "Was this just cold brutality," wrote Schanberg, who stayed behind when Phnom-Penh fell last month, "a cruel and sadistic imposition of the law of the jungle? ... Or is it possible that, seen through the eyes...