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...Cruising develops into a leather-coated cat-and-mouse story, Friedkin's strange perceptions of New York cops become clearer. They are crass morons as he presents them, maligning the cruisers and transvestites, raiding apartments at the wrong time, busting the wrong guys, torturing criminals and failing miserably to prevent the killings. Throughout the film, however, Friedkin casts them as good guys. They are the New York cops of 1977, paralyzed and pressured by a maniac who hears voices that tell him to kill...
With Hunneman no longer on the scene, Harvard Real Estate's role has become even clearer. In the last month we have found it necessary to engage an attorney to assure that Harvard Real Estate would abide by the terms of an agreement which tenants had reached with them about staging in the rent increase. Moreover, we have had to report to the Rent Board that Harvard Real Estate has not completed a major repair to the building which the Rent Board ordered them to do before the rent increase could be collected. Harvard Real Estate struck back by demanding...
...closing Mass in the Sistine Chapel, John Paul said he took satisfaction in the bishops' "clearer awareness" of the universal church. Translation: the Vatican had won on each of its eight major complaints. The handling of priestly celibacy was typical. Though Rome closed the question long ago, two liberal Dutch bishops have permitted open discussion of allowing married priests, and another bishop has said publicly that he would welcome such a change. In one of the more dramatic moments around the synod table, archtraditionalist Silvio Cardinal Oddi of the Vatican pointed a finger at each bishop in turn...
...thing that has become clearer and clearer is that the economic ideology of our system--that in a market system people get what they ought to--will be clearly exposed as one that it irrelevant to economics as it is functioning. The basic decisions will be political--economics will be politicized...
...SATISFACTION of reading a Henry James novel is seeing through eyes that penetrate the surface of Victorian manner and dress, and resolve scenes of human life into clearer images of human nature. The appeal is surely intellectual rather than emotional--the beauty of a James' novel is not so much in the characters' intrigues, but in the author's view of them...