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...should anyone balk at this? Personal web pages abound as a seeming antidote for those who can't get onto talk shows. "I masturbated three times today while checking out Hustler On-Line," read one home-page I saw today. Another went on to describe the "psychotic disfunctionality" of his family life. (I'll spare you the temptation by not printing the URLs.) People's thoughts, their actions, their lives, are increasingly seen as traffic in an ever-expanding public discourse...
Just hours before he was scheduled to be questioned by NBC's Tom Brokaw and Katie Couric, O.J. Simpson pulled out of a one-hour, no-holds-barred TV interview, the buildup for which had attracted nationwide curiosity as well as furor. The reason for Simpson's balk: his lawyers told him his answers might complicate his defense in the civil suits brought by the Brown and Goldman families. Simpson followed his NBC no-show with a phone call to the New York Times to declare, "I am an innocent man." Simpson also told the paper that he had been...
...about women's health, right to control their bodies, quality of life, etc. But it seems to me here that the Center is attempting to say that the birth-control movement wasn't inherently liberal, that it's being inaccurately linked with a liberal abortion-rights movement. Sorry. I balk at trying to describe the Sanger movement as conservative...
...question to students and House masters, only to find that their positions remained practically identical to those of their predecessors on the committee five years ago. Students still want to have some say in where they live for the bulk of their undergraduate years, and the house masters balk at student choice when it threatens the diversity of the houses...
Orson Welles and Laurence Olivier have done it, but no black man has ever acted Othello in a major movie. Now LAURENCE FISHBURNE is close to signing on to play Shakespeare's Moor in a version directed by Kenneth Branagh. Some actors, given current sensitivities, might balk at playing theater's most famous wife killer, especially if they had won renown as bad husband Ike Turner in What's Love Got to Do with It? But at least this time Fishburne won't have to wear mean purple bell-bottoms...