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...unpleasant truths. The meditative tone is set on Pink Flamingos, which describes the denizens of a bar in terms that suggest a watering hole in the African veldt. As guitar and piano skitter above a buttery bass line, Jones sings, ''Look at them -- poking like flightless birds/. . .the spirit cannot wait to fly like the pink flamingo.'' . Wild animals, with their quality of being both savage and pure, are a recurring motif. On the run from predators imagined or real, Jones' protagonists seek refuge in solitude or sex. On Tigers, men are portrayed as unpredictable beasts that can never...
...meet his best friend in battle -- haunted too by his unrequited love for the man's wife. ''Virginians! Who will go with me!'' he cries, rushing to his gallant doom. All these performances are touched with a sense of rue, a sense of lives caught up in forces they cannot master. This, together with our knowledge of the dreadful cost of the battle, lends a terrible poignancy to the film. The fact that Maxwell struggled for a decade to realize the project (even mortgaging his home to retain the rights to Michael Shaara's Pulitzer- prizewinning novel, The Killer Angels...
...beating death of black motorist Malice Green; in Detroit. Green died of injuries from hammer- like blows delivered by heavy metal flashlights. The two officers apologized to Green's family before Judge George Crockett handed down their punishments -- 12 to 25 years in prison for Nevers, who cannot be paroled before he has served at least nine years and eight months; and eight to 18 years for Budzyn, or a minimum of 6 1/2 years. The officers requested that they be imprisoned out of state to avoid cellblock encounters with inmates they sent to prison in the course of their...
...latest goal for unveiling a bill was this week, but the White House will miss that one too. The result of this tardiness is that Clinton's opponents are scoring points in the nascent debate, while a growing number of Americans are left with the impression that the Administration cannot translate its grand vision into workable policy. It does not help that the Administration keeps making embarrassing revisions to its original health-care budget. Just last week, the White House was forced to acknowledge that its plan will be more expensive than anticipated -- by as much as $21 billion over...
...problems, not least of which is the endemic corruption that has eviscerated any faith the Afghans once had in their government. "Russia came here with 150 thousand troops, and you know what happened," says businessman Mohammad Akbar Bhai. "Even if you bring one million troops in Afghanistan, the West cannot win. What we need is honest government. If a river starts in mud, everything downstream will be dirty...