Word: authorly
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...since it confronts the postwar alibi that average citizens of the Third Reich either did not know about the Holocaust or disapproved of it," says TIME's John Elson. "Some historians may also question whether anti-Semitism, while prevalent in pre-Hitler Germany, was as viciously eliminationist as the author argues." Elson notes that the 19th century English writer Lord Acton believed that historians should be hanging judges, exercising their right to condemn the sins of the past. "By this stern standard, Daniel Jonah Goldhagen has done his job with a pen in one hand, a noose in the other...
Boston College Law School Professor Charles Baron, the chief author of the legislation, told the Boston Globe that in view of these court decisions those worried about abuses should support the proposed regulations...
Other talking heads include gay personalities who are not identified with Hollywood, like Quentin Crisp and Susie Bright, contemporary straight actors like Tom Hanks and Susan Sarandon, and many overlapping figures, such as historian Richard Dyer, author Gore Vidal, and screenwriter Paul Rudnick. The heterosexual actors, for the most part, don't come off as well. Whoopi Goldberg and Sarandon radiate satisfaction with their own openmindedness, Hanks seems fairly happy-go-lucky both about his youthful homophobia and his recent embrace of a more sensitive persona. Harry Hamlin seems more perceptive than most, admitting his own tendency to question...
...problem with Alice is not so much its barrage of appalling imagery as the author's insistence on using the imagery to make naive, amorphous political statements. Homes says she was inspired to write Alice after Jesse Helms' attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts. "I was responding passionately to a repressive moment," she says. "Writing is an act of aggression, and I wanted to take on sexuality." Unfortunately, she takes it on too obviously. At certain points in the book, her pedophile narrator addresses the reader directly to explain that the book is not meant to shock...
DIED. MARGUERITE DURAS, 81, writer; in Paris. The author of 35 novels, she frequently used the land of her birth, colonial French Indochina, for her spare but expressive portraits of the redemptive and destructive power of love. Her most popular was 1984's L'Amant (The Lover), an autobiographical novel that depicts the social and sexual tensions between a poor French 15-year-old and her wealthy Asian lover. In film her biggest success was the screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour...