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...Louis Cain, the chain's original owner, hastaken the famous "French Bakery Cafe"international...

Author: By Leondra R. Kruger, | Title: Old Days of Quiet Neighborhood Die | 2/17/1995 | See Source »

...After that, he and Alfred get to squabbling over their brother's fiance, played, thankfully, by the lovely Julia Ormond, who gives the movie's only unaffected performance. At this point your thoughts may turn back to East of Eden, which was a gloss on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. When the Colonel suffers a stroke, just as the patriarch in that film did, you may begin to entertain suspicions of rip-off--not to mention thoughts of escape from this tangle of portentous cross-references...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST OF EDEN, SOUTH OF CANADA | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...After that, he and Alfred get to squabbling over their brother's fiancee, played, thankfully, by the lovely Julia Ormond, who gives the movie's only unaffected performance. At this point your thoughts may turn back to East of Eden, which was a gloss on the biblical tale of Cain and Abel. When the Colonel suffers a stroke, just as the patriarch in that film did, you may begin to entertain suspicions of ripoff -- not to mention thoughts of escape from this tangle of portentous cross-references...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: East Of Eden, South of Canada | 1/23/1995 | See Source »

Gordimer referred to the experiences of Karl Nehas, a white South African revolutionary, to illustrate the "Cain and Abel" nature of the apartheid...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Gordimer Attacks South African Censorship in 2nd Norton Lecture | 10/21/1994 | See Source »

...getting gay people to read gay books and not just gay pornography. One of the largest groups of readers in America is probably gay men, but I think most of them have read books that everyone else was reading until now, I mean biographies of movie stars, or The Cain Mutiny or something--and then suddenly there's this new gay market. I think that has meant the development of a gay consciousness amongst gay people. That's really been the crossover, to cross gay people over to their own literature, because I don't think straight people are actually...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Genet, AIDS and Mrs. Nabokov | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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