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...recently received a new home, a former country barroom that was transplanted to Four Corners to replace her tumbledown shack. She did much of the makeover, dividing the interior into separate rooms and installing paneling and electrical boxes. "This is Four Corners Self Help, not sit on your butt and get help," says Loston, as she yanks out a stubborn nail...
...less poignant, searing or believable, however, were Thomas' anguished statements and adamant denials. In his opening remarks -- which he wrote himself, by a friend's account, after telling the White House to "butt out" -- he said he felt "shocked, surprised, hurt and enormously saddened" on learning of Hill's charges. While Hill would maintain that he had asked her out five to 10 times during the period in question, he denied that he had ever asked her for even a single date. Rather, he said, Hill was someone he had helped at every turn, someone he considered a friend. That...
...DRUGS, ROCK & ROLL. Eric Bogosian is the Swinburne of sleaze. The master monologuist finds fetid poetry in the butt ends of urban American lives: street people, soul-dead tough guys, ex-dopester rock stars. They crowd the stage in this one-man show, a 1990 off-Broadway hit artfully filmed by director John McNaughton...
...most important thing that people who have been victimized can understand, whether it is fair or unfair, and it certainly is not fair, is that change will have to come from themselves. Thomas and I are not hardhearted people who are simply saying, "Get up off your butt, pull yourself up by your bootstraps." We need government intervention to help us. But we've also got to help ourselves. Opportunity follows struggle. It follows effort. It follows hard work. It doesn't come before...
...according to Miami Herald movie reviewer Bill Cosford, "a butt- kicking feminist manifesto . . . which sweeps you along for the ride." No, says Sheila Benson, a Los Angeles Times film critic, it is a betrayal of feminism, which, as she understands it, "has to do with responsibility, equality, sensitivity, understanding -- not revenge, retribution or sadistic behavior...