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...primates seldom learn...
...these nuggets of satire appear too seldom. While it paints a flashy picture, Shampoo Planet is weighed down by slightly-overwritten prose and a less-than-enthralling plot. Its sardonic ideas don't come along quite often enough to satisfy our hunger for a quick-and-easy definition of ourselves...
...however, has grown in political skill and public approval, while Quayle has not -- as both men demonstrated vividly last week. Campaigning arm in arm with Democratic presidential nominee Bill Clinton on a triumphant bus tour that attracted enthusiastic crowds through the Midwest, Gore managed to excite voters as he seldom did during the 1988 primaries. He deftly fielded questions, deferred to Clinton, turned back attacks from the Bush campaign and provided a remarkably effective complement to his running mate's considerable campaign skills. "Both of the Democratic candidates are young and smart," grumbled a depressed Bush-Quayle campaign official...
Menacing as it sounds, the fantasy in Cop Killer is the fantasy of the powerless and beaten down -- the black man who's been hassled once too often ("A pig stopped me for nothin'!"), spread-eagled against a police car, pushed around. It's not a "responsible" fantasy (fantasies seldom are). It's not even a very creative one. In fact, the sad thing about Cop Killer is that it falls for the cheapest, most conventional image of rebellion that our culture offers: the lone gunman spraying fire from his AK-47. This is not "sedition"; it's the familiar...
This provocative analysis was supported by the steady rise of poverty despite the fact that taxpayers spend $220 billion a year -- $6,500 for every poor adult and child in the country -- to fight it. Before that speech and since, Bush has avoided the issue, seldom addressing it in public or in his arm-twisting of lawmakers. But since Los Angeles erupted, a handful of conservative activists among his advisers, led by Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, have been urging the President to fight for new market-oriented, antibureaucratic approaches to poverty -- including programs that Bush himself had halfheartedly proposed...