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Baker's weaknesses as a national leader are in some ways outgrowths of his strengths. His affection for pork-barrel projects for the folks back home seems particularly inappropriate for someone trying to shepherd a budget-cutting revolution through Congress. The most egre gious example is the Clinch River...
For the better part of two hours, he keeps the viewer interested too. In this torpid movie season, Diva is to be seen and savored for Philippe Rousselot's electric-blue imagery, for Hilton McConnico's extravagant decors, even for the prodigal joy Beineix derives from parading his...
Gay people also grow up without positive role models. While we may be aware of our feeling for people of our gender, these feelings are never validated by our surroundings. We see men and women set up as heterosexual models for expressing those feelings to one another. We see it...
Reruns are sustained commercially by an audience of adults as well as curious children. Some of the audience's affection is only for the familiar. But some, plainly, is for a world that seemed simpler and safer-if not always in reality, then at least in the idealized views...
"A writer must write what he has to say, not speak it," said Ernest Hemingway. But times change and so do writers. If The Old Man and the Sea were published today, Papa would probably play the old man-and perhaps the fish too. And if he did not, no...