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...most honest - and certainly the most exciting - movie about the secret war ever made. It also represents a comeback for Verhoeven, who left his native Holland in the mid-1980s for Hollywood, where he made big budget sci-fi movies like Starship Troopers and sexually controversial pictures like Basic Instinct, before the resounding failure of Showgirls nearly drove him out of the business. He talked to TIME's Richard Schickel about his new film and the wild ride that brought...
...Well, it's correct when the movie asks for it. When I feel that it's not to the point I don't do it. You could also say that in American movies like Basic Instinct or Showgirls I was not really a strong participant in the creation of the scripts, of the ideas. I was just projecting into the project as much of myself as I could. So it might just be the director putting himself, his signature - his soul, if you want to be heavier - into the movie. I had the feeling I could do something completely innovative...
...sense the sexuality of Black Book is like that Basic Instinct and Showgirls. There's a simple acceptance that human beings are sexually driven creatures. They will sometimes get it on in the most amazing circumstances...
...basic methods of a Core class seem to have learned nothing from the innovative progress of education during the past century. Students attend lecture, read at night, write papers, and take final exams—each practice remains as solitary as it is antiquated. Students attend section for an hour a week and always have the opportunity to talk about classes in the dining hall or the dorm room, but the social dimension of learning is almost entirely extrinsic to the practice and principles of a Core education...
...prove themselves competent, kids should have all the rights of adults. "Just about everything we do tells [teens] they're incompetent," Epstein writes. "We protect them from danger (driving, cigarettes, alcohol); we don't trust them to work or own property ... We don't allow them to make basic decisions about their health, education or religion." Epstein's proposal? Allow any kid--of any age--who can "pass one or more relevant competency tests" not only to do constructive things like sign contracts and vote but also to do essentially anything he or she wants: have sex with people...