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...play Hamlet is haunted by the boozy ghost of John Barrymore. The off-Broadway hit and soon- to-be movie Jeffrey is giddy buffoonery, infused with the pain of gay men's sexual yearning in the age of AIDS. His new The Naked Truth is a big step backward. Loosely based on the flap over the late Robert Mapplethorpe's erotic photos, it has nothing fresh to say about culture wars, Republican hypocrisy, women's self-imposed lack of liberation or any of its other thematic targets. Its best lines concern the clothes sense of upper-class women...
...Steps Backward in Mexico...
Maybe I should climb those floodlit Widener steps again. Not in order to look backward or recapture what was, but to look forward and conceive of what still...
...than the color of their skin," is an ideal in this country, one that arrived late in our history. Like many of our ideals it is a work in progress rather than a fact of life. The incompleteness of the ideal is not an excuse though, for taking steps backward. Self-segregation is such a step...
...universities are concerned, themodel has been to provide as much free access asyou can," Law says. "I think moving away from thatmodel would be a step backward...