Res ipsa loquitur, people’s people....

Res ipsa loquitur, people’s people.... After seven decades and seven years, the collective wisdom and decency prevails.... FDR’s social security Harry Truman’s soul searching from the clothing store in Kansas City, Missouri, JFK’s desegregating all white Mississippi law school.
LBJ’s enactment of civil rights for all humans, regardless of their skin pigment. Bill Clinton tooting his horn for open mindedness on the 9 "umpires" of the Supreme court, interpreting the Republic’s Constitution.
Did the authors in their flight from England’s repression, wage the Revolution to perpetuate the caste system in the colonies? A bloody price to pay for thinking big, don’t you think.?

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What is playing out in our 21st Century? *"Inherit the wind" co staring no not Chief Justice Roberts nor his Constitutional Law Professor at Harvard Law School, Lawrence Tribe.
*With Spencer Tracy and Frederic March.
Coupled with Edward Arnold’s "Come and get it"

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The Chief Justice’s presence of umpiring gave the health insurance
mandate for all Americans, a grip of the Magna Carta..a leg up on pursuit of health&happiness.
What would this miracle of 34^thStreet do for all the misery and despair in the barrios and Bowery’s and inner city gang tortured state of minds.
Didn’t Marcus Aurelius say "Our life is what our thoughts make It."
IVTherefore a break in the dregs of soup lines self pitying rejection and loss of confidence..
Homeless shelters may be with us "Sullivan Travels" but carved into its self serving tables...the health care law of 2012
"Come and get ir" is the law of the land.
June 29,2012

Knowing the banality of evil was playing out in the Joe Paterno Penn State pigskin "win one for the Gipper" infamy..

Knowing the banality of evil was playing out in the Joe Paterno Penn State pigskin "win one for the Gipper" infamy.. The relentless need to win ,the scenario self destroying itself.
Human need for recognition in the spelling bee of life’s eleven.....the huddle, the line of scrimmage, moving the chains for a first down... a microcosm of the yardage between the goal posts Pass to the wide receivers.....hippity run thr left trackle and vulnerable defenders.
Hall of Fame credentials, being groomed by the pros, the fans going ga ga like rock stars getting their moment in the surreal baptism.. ....of high school athletes becoming jocks.and never heard of again,. the irony not taught in their blackboard class of X’s and O’s.
The body contact, sacking the quarterback unlike the Gipper metamorphosing as President of the Uniuted States ("Dutch") Part&parcel of humans falling into the loop, all for a 24 hour moment of thunderous puppy love, evolving amidst millions of spectators caught up in the vicarious Saturday spectacle of spectator "usiness"

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"Wht fools these mortals be" exhorted Mandrake the Magician, holding court. The Phantom,
his black panther licking its feet, Secret Agent X9, Jungle Jim, Flash Gordon, Prince Valiant.
Bringing Up Father
" By God," cried Bringing up Father, setzing in his chair."Fireworks on the field, nothing in comparison with those in the courtroom. The jury deliberations off the charts,"said the Bringing up Father. "Doesn’t it transcend Hawthorne’s ScarletLetter, fellows?"
"Thinking on your feet, the presence of mind. Guilty on 47 of 49 counts, quarter backing a half century of a "hold that line, men and its pounding karma playing out.

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Meanwhle Joe and his brother in the schoolboy Catholic League of Bay Ridge (Brooklyn)rehearsing schemes thru formations, plays, pump fakes like the statue of liberty reverses.
Passing time.... where did it all go.
　
Growing up with peers, they could identify with... The learning curve short circuited, the Penn State bureaucracy bankrupt by a former defensive coordinator
Where in the football heavens can they justify the disenchantment of so many for so long? By one man’s disingenuous.

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"The curse of bigness" cried the "Win one for the Gipper" during six decades" in absentuio, the sound and fury of the Paterno-Penn State scenario playing out in a six decade of Time. Being assassinated by a Brutus Cassius like rouge, dissimilating in the showers with a disciple. Not wet behind the ears.
Pat O’Brien in his "Knute Rockne" persona exhorting his Fighting Irish eleven in the Notre Dame lockers."Win one for the Gipper (Ronald Reagan)
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Didn’t Joe scribble a response to the Major, near the end of his run. "Ah Brooklyn. How I remember," he wrote as his six decades of tenured prosperity was nearing its inevitability.
A lethal assault on our senses, the relative reality scene... the Trojan Bruin competitive juices post WW2, the Los Angeles Coliseum, the theater3000 miles away.
Cheerleading timeless and riveting card cues , megaphoned by H.M. Wammack, the cheerleader’s cheerleader in a Aristotle Socrates setting, the Ucla campus quad.

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"Who broke the loop? The karma ?The Paterno legacy broken by depravity of a defensive coordinator, hired by his surrogate father, coach Paterno.
Was Joe a victim of his own success? His Bay Ridge need to out rival his own Division one rivals.......
.Coach Jock Sutherland..QB Sid Luckman tackle guard Irwin Shaw.Pros, the likes of Ace Parker Pug Manders Bruiser Kinard running their routes at Ebbets Field.

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Where was the infamy during those moments of a depression, Pre World War 2?
Association in the street? Touch flag football? The collision of bodies? Wrath at losing? Self pity in discouraging play by play. Disappointment in not sharing space and time with hero worshiping team mates
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"A double feature"cried Bringing up Father.. "The curse of bigness"
and "The Banality of Evil" ,Hannah Arendt’s tour de force of moral cancer in Adolph Eichman’s psyche, the Third Reich’s diseased soul playing out..
June 25, 2012breathlessly joining the frey."Watching thbe jury deliberations, listening with my third ear to the cacophony of Coach’s legacy dragged thru the muddy yardage. for a penalty. A loss of yardage over a hen pecking half of century.

In the reality scene of gravity bound bank hoisters Jesse and Frank James, Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda cast as the Robin Hoods of their day

In the reality scene of gravity bound bank hoisters Jesse and Frank James, Tyrone Power and Henry Fonda cast as the Robin Hoods of their day, they heard thru the grapevine of a man child named Lebron James, dominating the planet from a basketball syndrome of pine..
His will to win, the thrust thru the passing lanes into the paint and the heights of his leaps and reverse lay ups off the glass, into the Oklahoma City Thunder "bigs" is a Picasso&Marc Chagal surrealism, taking the game to another dimension...
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Not unlike Pat Riley’s own legacy, playing out his role as a player at Kentucky, (part time broadcaster, with Chick Hearn)) assistant and head coach of the Lakers, Knicks and Heat. James ‘s odyssey transcending the South Beach honcho’s persona and slicked back graying hair..
Kevin Durant, Russell Westbrook. Coaches Scotty Brooks Maurice Cheeks ? All on the bench, speechless, watching a Grand Canyon act of nature..
"Awessome" Zeus from his berth in the skies over South Beach.
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A dynasty
The immortal legion of coaches John Wooden Red Auerbach Red Holtnab Phil Jackson (11 rins) Dr. Jack Ramsey Hubie Brown Hank Iba of Oklahoma State.... Nat Holman Clair Bee Joe Lapchik... his sweatered successor, Lou C...... Bobby Knight Coach ‘K’ of Duke.
High school coaches from Akron,, Ohio New Jersey, Brooklyn a gasp.
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The athleticism of the Harlem Globetrotters George Mikan, Bob Kurland, Elgin Baylor, Wes Unseld . Wilt Chamberlain. Oscar Robertrson..... Giants in their own right and reputation.
Jerry West, Connie Hawkins, Bernard King, Patrick Ewing Dr Julius Irving Ucla’s Don Barksdale "the Admiral" Reggie Miller from downtown....
Mentioned in the same breath with Michael Jordan, Sacotty Pippen, the mailman of the Utah Jazz, Shaq Nat Thurmond John Havelchek Bill Russell resting on their Hall of Fame laurels.
Nothing more to prove
Magic Johnson Larry Bird The Chief Lew Alcindor ("Jabbar") Joe Dumas Isiah Thomas
Bill Walton. Olajon.....Charles Barkley Chris Mullin
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However the accounting of stars amidst the constellations is jarred by the acquital of baseball’s Roger Clements acquittal ofd using male hormones and illegal substances to enhance his own own grasp of his heroics.
What would the Sultan of Swat say
Exorcizing the demons of the cosmos, June 19,2012... the Babe turned pitcher into an immortal?. One for the ages.?

As the pedigree of humanity plays out, Charles Grodin’s sound byte yesterday touched on our own immersion into hazing at UCLA.

As the pedigree of humanity plays out, Charles Grodin’s sound byte yesterday touched on our own immersion into hazing at UCLA.
The hen pecking syndrome at the fraternity reality scene.
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Not young bloods..... but impressionistic innocent snot noses...high school grads. Cocoons emerging as caterpillars evolving into butterflies. The bullying apparatus is subtle and seductive, appealing to the worst instincts in seventeen year old freshmen.
The ritual ascribes to paddling by an upperclass man. A pornographic flick in Sir Charles’s case. The hired hurdy gurdy party girl, drinking around a keg of suds and exposure to sorority dating across campus.
These snarls have a scent of disguised sadism in environs of Plato’s Utopia, a Nobel Prize chemist To breed superior traits by engineering is anachronistic, if not cannibalistic.
Adolescence is prey to their own petty failings. Don’t they need liberating heroics
to nurture them. . Surrogate parents who are listening "gurus" instead of authoritative upper class men, playing out their sense of experience, years, and arrogant yearnings.
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How else can Ovid’s morphing play out. amidst the hazing and egotistical upper class men.
"Coming of age in Samoa". Margaret Mead’s exploration of indoctrination into
adulthood’s "website".
Charles Grodin fleshes out the evil of hazing....to structure the destiny of seventeen year olds. The brain washing is part and parcel of the bullying. The innate need to prove a superior "Aryan"
"Love’s labor lost" playing out. Beethoven’s "Ode to joy" denied.
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The die is cast
"A generation of vipers" stealing their souls ,denying their own thrust into the scene of four years in the campus flavor of eternal growing up fates and hormones.
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Didn’t Ingrid Bergman, a perpetual student, go her own karma, playing out "Stromboli"
rejecting "If they want bread, let them eat cake."

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"We are the stuff that dreams are made on. Our little lives rounded with a sleep."
On the hen pecking syndrome, June 12, 1210(the caste system) and the saber tooth tiger of the La Brea tar pits reigns supreme. Alley Oop retreating into his caved depression. Dinny, his dinosaur, left to forge for itself, playing out survival of the fittest.

"My Captain My Captain....." RobinWilliams playing out the mesmerizing school teacher

"My Captain My Captain....." RobinWilliams playing out the mesmerizing school teacher. His preppy "Dead poet’s society" taken out of their self indulgent superiority....their caste system, an insular fortress as Buckingham Palace.
"We’re all being tested, preppies."
"You’re toast," says the student, looking down at his ancestor’s Coney Island upbringings, turning back the clock, recapitulating the built in snobbishness, those students use to cover up their flaws.,their teacher casting aside his lesson plans ,aiming to get the kids out of their predestined natures, perpetuating their monied prep school proclivities of superiority and dogma..

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A medicine man he was not. No way..... Burt Lancaster’s "Elmer Gantry" (inked by Sinclair Lewis). Didn’t he know why he was put on the "Dawn Patrol"?
Why tap into your Faustian soul to get these kids out of themselves. To think for themselves.
Play it cozy, Dude.
No skinny dipping in this reality scene. Hanging by yer thumbs. pal.
To get along, you play along.

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Whoa Nellie
"Gimme five, Mister.... What you say your nombre was, amigo?"
"Call me Duke, Professor. We know not what we do. But we know who we are."

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Meanwhile at South Beach (Miami Heat) Pat Riley may hay been second guessing himself as Big Three basketball players: high school grad Lebron James? Marquete’s DwayneWade, and their Toronto gifted Chris Bosh were on the road to Bean Town.
Playing against the aging big three of the Celtics: the fountain of youth Keven Garnet, "the truth" Paul Pierce, U/Conn’s RayAllen and their point guard "Hondo" "no no Rondo" (Hondo John Havlichek reliving the Red Auerbach orchestrations)
"Ya gotta believe."

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Bosh out with an abdominal paint, returned to the playoff wars in game five,seeing 14 minutes of action, the Celtics winning on the road. The Heat’s rotation and styming the "Truth" and 6'1`1" K.G (Kevin Garnet),a high school grad).. Rondo penetrating the paint, the Heat rotating ,doubling up, leaving K.G. in the painted area, at the rim, for his ageless dunks tip ins or rebounds.
Bosh during that crunch time still in the rust of the return, tte Heat losing by a blink of the "Truth’s" Inglewood,Ca killer eyes.., he hitting from downtown, James defending him,the shot clock ticking down.

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"Mr. Chips goes to town" (Robert Donat) playing along with "the Dead Poet’s Society" the story line became surreal with Maggie Smith’s toure de force of "her own preppies on the distaff side.
"The prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
Surreal in this instance as her finishing school marm (Tulane University’s college for women),her pet student, giving her the Mata Hari (Margaretha Gertruide Zelle)ita shafterooney..
The teacher’s pet of a smiling snitching assassin, telling the head masters that Miss Brodie was "as incompetent as teats on a boar’s ass."


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Meanwhile "crash the boards" was playing at Madison Square garden the injury plagued Willis reed, Captain of the Knicks, came thru the tunnel unto the floor, the fans not as vociferous as those in the small market of "OKC" ,holding their ear plugs, after they checked the big 3 of the San Anotnio Spurs,(Duncan, Parker, Genoble) the Alamo revisited by the up tempo hungrier younger legged Thunder.......
The emotion got to the faithful and Reed led the Knicks to a victory.
However in the dot com cosmos of the 21^st century hoop wars, Chris Bosh wasm’t able to turn the clock back in those 14 minutos at South Beach,
Isn’t it all relative

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Challenging the status quo and the sound bytes of playing it sale is no longer sine qua non.
Isn’t it all a gamble from the cradle to the grave, incombent on risk taking riding rough shod over mediocrity.
"In yer face", Prince Albert slipping his hush puppies under his wife’s bed in futuro. Queen Victoria’s diaries.

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It begs the question whether or not finding one’s Holy Grail, is but a feather in the cap of basketball’s ultimate crowning.
"Heaven is on the way to it , June 7,2012?," cried the Duke, riding shotgun. John Ford’s "Stagecoach"

On running up the hill, Jack and Jill kept their eyes on the road to Damascus

On running up the hill, Jack and Jill kept their eyes on the road to Damascus
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Didn’t they hear Pop’s (coach Popavich) sharpshooter analyst from downtown, Brucebow tied Bruce Bowen of the Spurs (Nba’s San Antonio)say that Pops, has his Tim Duncan ("MacBeth:) Tony Parker (Paris’s left bank) and Manu Ginoble off the bench (Argentina).... that Pops, their coach, has their pulse close to his own scrubby vest...
Indoctrinated by the Air Force Academy’s inner sanctum...in a command role as a father figure,
brought his driving system the NBA finals of the western division once again.
A frenzied shoot out with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Led by a 6'10" Kevin Durant (Will Durant and his frau writing their Philosophical tomes from their Hollywood Hills abode)

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Meanwhile little did Jack and Jill know that the spectra of their doom was playing out around thethe bend..... on the road to Damascus.
A massacre not unlike Geronimo’s slaughter of "Custer’s last stand" ,( the Plainsman) with Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. Their wagons circled by Geronimo’s "an eye for an eye" "a tooth for a tooth" reached epic proportions... a vengeful merciless aggression..
An expression of sadistic and masochistic murder
Can the United Nations and the Hague Court of International Justice ground out a
When the collective wisdom of the International Counmmunity sat on their hands, tolerating the tyranny by Hitler and his notion of Aryan supremacy, wasn’t he arrogating slavery. Bringing out the worst in mankind, destroying the weak and innocent..

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Man’s inhumanity to man playing out
Was Fellini far off the mark in La Dolche Vide. Novella Rome’s bullying, hiding beyond the catacombs.
Isn’t that way kids flee their homes, running off to the circus. A foretaste of the
guilt inculcating lives they saee around them.. that those ideals they are taught to transcend the classroom and the ivory towers.are but mere lip service.

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The Arab cosmos is in disarray, to say the least ...Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and now the Syria . The latter can no longer hold back "inevitability"
Killing women and children brings tyranny and insanity to the forefront. Good and evil are battling it out on the road to Damascus. G
Grinamo setting the stage for mass murder of innocents in our time.

72 years since the Fuhrer was able to obliterate six million Jews,poisoning the birthrights of his storm troopers and their sycophant "yes men". Bullying dressed up becomes fashionable,doesn’t it?

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"My life is with the Spurs," said Tim Duncan ("MacBeth") as Pops led his San Antonio Spurs to another riveting clinic of team basketball.... the astrophysics of the Space age playing out on a gym floor.
May the Diplomats in their "final solution"challenge "might makes right" Lend their aggresswsive energy in behalf of the weak and oppressed..
The lottery of "my life is with the Spurs."
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Jack and Jil ranl up the hill... a sweeping view of the challenges that liey ahead... on the road to
Damascus, May 30, 2012 again. Even those high priests at the Vatican are embroiled in their own insulation."final solution?

Fine tunning Charles Grodin’s "I miss him"....

Fine tunning Charles Grodin’s "I miss him"....Johnny Carson’s...role playing at the very pinnacle ’Here’s Johnny" by Ed McMahon, reminiscent of Don Wilson..an alter ego..( for Jack Benny across town.) karma

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Thirty aeons at Burbank’s Shangri-la, the Nebraskan native played out..good humor man bartender and wet nurse. A repartee of burlesque and barber hunor as he "lost himself to find himself"...."Fearless Fosdick strikes again."
Wasn’t the bonding and chemistry with Grodin’s psyche providential? The mustachio of a tramp wearing a derby, baggy pants, lumpy shoes, dangling a cane..(theVenice,Ca. roller skating rink) the other Charlie found his persona forever.
So much so that the man of a thousand faces offered a deal to Grodin so Carson could see a mirror of himself in Grodin’s own carousel of "up tight menches" and strung out nay sayers.
A bubbling champagne of kindred souls playing out their needs to tear off the masks of pretension that suffocate the minor planet we call Earth.. Thirty years since since Spielberg’s "ET"docked his space ship., the savior faire among us, suspending disbelief.

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To be in that mix! The NBC ushers should charge admission. The Laurel&Hardy barbs not lost on Charles and Johnny in their hip improvisations.
How can you top this
Park ya carkas Leches Pete the Ma Russian ? Fred Allen’s Senator Claghorn ....,("Senator McHooey")

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Mark Twain (Sam Clements) assails on Democracy. Hearing Bill Clinton’s "president" plugging a Congressional candidate of the "Jersey Boys" ... on the make with Monica Lewinsky
his sensual vibes, much like the fly inspector trying to make a score in the FFA classroom of North Hollywood High School. The venue, where Monica started her learning curve in the senior side of politics.
The caste system indeed. Not a conscience in the oval office...the apex of role playing. Dwarfs the Group theater,
Stella Adler’s dramtrurgy Brando and Paul Newman, Shelly Winters. Lee Strassberg, Elia Kazan mentors.
Clifford Odets rounding ouyt the Group’s method acting.
La’s Actors Lab.....Morris Carnofsky, J Edward Bromberg, Art Smith, Larry Parks, Betty Garret.

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Was the awesome Magna Carta all to the nought in hindsight.?

"Rubbish"
Here’s Johnny
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Offering Grodin an exclusive, Carson expanded his range of impersonations.
Dsarth Vader’s antithesis of Princess Lea, his vibes sky rocketed until Grodin brought him back to gravity..His ratings "hit the sky".,needless to say George Lucas still counting the shekyls from "American Graffati"
Right, George?
Right.

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After three decades of labor of love and three marriages, the peevish Nebraskian , tossed in the
tossed in the towel, from his workouts..
His son killed in a car crash,.
Last seen at Wimbledon and the Queen’s Jubilee,,he appeared impish as ever, the nightly strain and stress of milking impersonations, not unnoticed by the savior faire, watching his karma play out.
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"I miss him," said Charles Grodin.....
"The Empire strikes back"", June 3, 2012
"? Peter Donald Harry Hershfield? Joe Lurie, Jr?