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...which will be mailed to 1 million homes as a way of suggesting that, unlike her opponent, Brown "has a plan." Eric Schockman, an elections expert at the University of Southern California, is enthused. "Since Labor Day, I've seen a different Kathleen Brown," he says. "She's more candid." In fact, in a debate with Wilson last Friday night, Brown emphasized her tough attitude on crime by disclosing that years ago one of her daughters had been raped and her son had been mugged...
Inevitably, there are criticisms. One is that the absence of women among the study's directors could have skewed the questions. Doubts have also been raised about whether personal interviews could elicit truly candid answers to intimate questions. In addition, the sample is too small to look in detail at some groups, like homosexuals. But their careful work, the team writes, "has convinced us that this sample is an excellent one from which we can make generalizations about sex in America." And, they emphasize, "we do so with confidence...
...Welch is candid about his interest in striking some sort of deal involving NBC. While he refuses to comment on reports that GE is considering the sale of a 49% stake in the network to Time Warner, he acknowledges that "we've had discussions about every combination with everyone." That includes Walt Disney chairman Michael Eisner, who also has been eyeing NBC. Welch described his conversations with executives like Time Warner chairman Gerald Levin as "two guys groping, to see what fits." But he strongly hinted that he intends to keep at least some control of the network. "The outright...
...first look at "Voodoo" comes, of course, from the jacket. The cover shows a primitive, zombie-like figure in the midst of a Mick Jagger-like shake of the hips. Inside are red-tinted, run-of-the-mill candid shots of Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood, looking about as old as the Moody Blues. Then again, Keith has looked like that for the last twenty years...
...know what you may be thinking, and this is not some cheap dramatization of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland. What it is is a sharp, witty, candid and humorous look at what it's like to be a lesbian these days. While I cannot speak from personal experience about what it is like to be a lesbian in the '90s, the film confronts, draws out and discusses very openly such sterotypes of lesbians as butch or short-haired, combat-boot-wearing nose-ring-touting macho sluts...