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“The Academy Awards ceremony is designed to be without irony, but Chris Rock supplied it anyway with filmed movie-theater interviews with black men and women who had never heard of the movies nominated for Best Picture.”

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We've become more tolerant because we're tired of the debate.

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It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.

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That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

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There is a bright spot or two for the Spaniards. French toast has become freedom toast on the Air Force One breakfast menu, but…

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Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply…

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Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.

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Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time.

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Johnny Cash was plenty good enough to fool his fans. They believed he felt it in his soul when he sang the Gospel while…

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Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought…

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It's easier to make fun of a first lady than for a first lady to have fun. The scrutiny is ferocious.

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The old studios that mass-produced dreams are gone with the wind, just like the old downtown theaters that were the temples of the dreams.

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Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul.

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If all the Atheists & Agnostics left America, they'd lose 93% of The National Academy of Sciences & less than 1% of the prison population.

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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.

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The 'Police Academy' stuff was all hyper-slapsticky.

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