Word: sort
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...massacre, making the world wonder what Israel has to hide. Israel has instead promised to conduct its own investigation, but was quick to add that no policeman involved in the massacre would be forced to testify and that no finding would be binding. This is hardly the sort of investigation the civilized world would expect from a country which constantly bills itself as the "only democracy in the Middle East...
...percent certain that the person in charge of the committee is the one sitting right in the middle, but be warned: this person almost always has some sort of hideous scar or birthmark that is practically begging to be stared...
...grist for her artistic mill is the jagged facts of her life. To sort these out you have to suspend normal conventions of reality and place yourself in her screenplay childhood. "Other people's fantasy was my reality," she says...
What all this implies is that TV's impact is pervasive and to a large extent inevitable. That impact cannot be wished away; all that can be done is to try to understand and control it. Reforms of the sort Congress has enacted are a salutary step. Networks and stations too -- though they are in the business of entertainment, not education -- must be vigilant about the content and commercialization of kids' shows...
SURRENDER THE PINK, by Carrie Fisher (Simon & Schuster; 286 pages; $18.95), is the sort of novel writers write between novels, about the sort of love affair a young woman might have between affairs. It has the odd quality of being funny and well written, despite an occasional outbreak of coupling adverbs ("passionately, tenderly"). But it is utterly unmemorable. The author can't seem to care much about her heroine, a pretty but underexposed young woman named Dinah Kaufman who writes soap operas in Los Angeles. Although Dinah likes sex and wants to be in love, the men she meets...