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...movie makes an asset of its minimal budget by interpolating abstract footage and a few surreal "trial" sequences that both tease and pay homage to gay feminism. For the uninitiated, there are a few comic "inside" glimpses, as when Max and her clan gossip about lesbians in history, from k.d. lang all the way back to Eve. At heart, though, Go Fish is a chummy date movie about the mundane, urgent business of finding a lover. Max could be any teen on the Friday-night prowl, but with a nice bending of Hollywood theology: girl meets girl, girl gets girl...
...into a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil, with a high fever. Within days she was dead. Brazilian scientists tried to identify the infectious agent; one of their number fell ill and nearly died in the process. But they could determine only that it was a member of the arenavirus clan, so they sent a sample on to Yale for further identification...
...everybody gone nuts? Is violence the way we resolve every domestic grievance, or is it just the quickest way to get on TV? With the Bobbitts, the Jacksons, the Menendez clan and that favorite new horror sitcom, The (O.J.) Simpsons, the American family has entered its postnuclear stage. Talk shows offer quack catharsis from every form of spousal and parental abuse. We're shouting at each other in National Enquirer headlines and have promoted tabloid newspapers and TV programs, once on the fringe of journalism, up to its hot center. It's Armageddon with commercial breaks. Why, the whole bloody...
Books: Peter Taylor's novel of a Tennessee clan...
...beating out rivals New York City, New Orleans and San Antonio, Texas, for a possible $100 million economic return. Grace says David Wilhelm, a former operative of Daley's and now Democratic National Committee chair, was the key to getting his hometown on the list. More important, the Daley clan helped President Clinton win the crucial Illinois primary in 1992, and he'll need them even more next time...