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Excess is always wretched, whether we're talking??executive-compensation packages or some guy trying to squeeze his Hummer into a parking space clearly labeled COMPACT. When we succumb to the Big Gulp ethos, as inevitably we do, it leaves us feeling shamefaced and guilty. It never leaves us laughing, and that's something Hollywood needs to think about...
Today, the dirty secrets are no longer being kept. Victims of private violence are talking???to police, prosecutors, counselors, friends, one another?and U.S. society is trying to help. Private violence is becoming less private. Thus, while reports of child abuse in Florida, for example, rose from 35,301 in 1981 to 45,704 last year, such apparent increases may be due mostly to authorities' finding out about more of the violence. Betty Friedan, the feminist author, believes that attacks on women are not necessarily on the rise, just coming out of the shameful murk: "Women don't tolerate...
...made of Noel Coward singing; when it was played back, all that could be heard was Jean Kerr, talking. She is perfectly willing to listen to other people; it is simply that most people would rather listen to her. As a result, she expends so much energy on talking???her blue eyes flashing, her arms semaphoring ?that she has little strength left for other physical effort. She is a stand-up comedian who sits down...