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'A perpetual hissing': notes on an unfavorite practice.(CULTURE WATCH)

National Review

| November 17, 2008 | Nordlinger, Jay | COPYRIGHT 2008 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A FEW nights ago, I had an interesting hissing experience. I was in a movie theater, and a preview for W. came on--this is the film about President Bush by Oliver Stone, the leftist director. The hissing was very strange: sort of tentative, unsure. It seemed to me that my neighbors were confused. They wanted to hiss the subject of the film, Bush, because they hate him. But they didn't want to hiss the film itself--which they were sure to like. They were kind of caught. So what came out of them was a half hissing, or trial hissing: Should we hiss or not, gang? Amusing, actually.

But there is nothing amusing about hissing in general, as far as I'm concerned. It is ...

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