Word: bonding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less noted events. A tense encounter between a band of demonstrators and a deputy sheriff on the streets of Selma, for example, turns into an impromptu "debate" between people from different planets: "Do you believe in equal justice?" "I don't believe in equal nothin'!" The narration by Julian Bond is admirably restrained, and - those interviewed (from such movement leaders as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael to old foes like Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark) look back without sounding either self-righteous or defensive. Except for its evocative use of spirituals and protest songs as a backdrop, the documentary refuses...
...almost certain to be appealed. Yet even when the final court has its final say, the echoes of Whitehead's anguished question will still hang in the air. If a society legitimates surrogacy, what has it done? Has it imperiled its most venerable notions of kinship and the bond between mother and child? Has it opened the way to a dismal baby industry, in which well-to-do couples rent out the wombs of less affluent women, sometimes just to spare themselves the inconvenience of pregnancy? Yet if surrogacy is prohibited, has a promising way for childless couples to have...
...paradoxes abound throughout the subject of surrogacy, a notion that speaks to the parental instinct and offends it in the same stroke. So that a father can enjoy a blood relation to his child, the surrogate mother is persuaded to treat the same bond as negotiable. For all the complexities, however, surrogacy is one of the simplest and most venerable of the new conception options. Even the Bible offers a parallel (in the Book of Genesis, naturally). When his wife proved unable to conceive, Abraham impregnated her handmaiden Hagar, who bore Ishmael. There were hard feelings in the aftermath...
...determined to make itself felt. It teems with new money thirsting for status through art. In Los Angeles, city of therapies, one sees the great American illusion that art is socially therapeutic brought to its apex. Medicean longings inflate the breast of the lowliest junk-bond zillionaire. Whole busloads of fledgling collectors shuttle on regular tours, shepherded by docents, art-investment consultants and "educators" of every stamp, among the private collections of Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Malibu. What other commodity offers such a blend of transcendence and fiscal display? Buying is a spectator sport, and the art gallery...
...When the undergraduates aren't around, we run in and grab what we can," said Wes Savick, who studies directing at the Institute. Savick is directing "Stone" a play by Edward Bond that opened this Monday. He is also directing "Skinhead Hamlet" a compressed parody by Richard Curtis that's written about English urban punks. The piece is so brief, in fact, that Savick's major worry right now is "how to fill the evening up, not leave people short...