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Outside, carnival celebrations were reaching their climax. But inside a Sao Paulo municipal lockup, policemen were exacting savage revenge for a failed ! escape attempt. They stripped naked 51 prisoners, allegedly beat them, then crushed them into an unventilated 5-ft. by 10-ft. cell. Whether the prisoners were locked in for 70 minutes or four hours remains a matter of dispute. What is not is that when the door was opened, nine were dead of suffocation and another nine died shortly after being rushed to the hospital...
Although she did not campaign for a seat on Harvard's highest governing board, Zachary says Hope has been "intensely interested" in the lifetime post since she was interviewed for the job by Geyser University Professor Henry Rosovsky several months ago. The appointment "is the climax, or one of the climaxes, of her career," he adds...
With Matador (1986) and Law of Desire (1987), Almodovar displayed his brazen assurance of style and vaulted from comic realism to soap-operatic mannerism. Matador is a contemporary vampire story: an ex-bullfighter and a woman lawyer, believing that death is the ultimate climax, impale each victim on the cold steel of their lust. Law of Desire draws a bent triangle: a gay movie director, his transsexual sister (Maura) and her adopted child's rightful mother (played by a Spanish drag queen). Revelations of murder, incest, suicide and lotsa hot sex follow, but the tone remains knowing, tender. As Matador...
...most recent controversy came to a climax last week, when John Paul triumphed over strong local resistance and appointed Georg Eder, a conservative village priest, as Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria. It was the latest act in a long-running drama. Last month the Pope named an equally unpopular conservative as Archbishop of Cologne, West Germany, Europe's richest diocese. In January 1988 the Pontiff shocked the Irish clergy by picking a conservative metaphysician as Dublin's Archbishop. A few months before that, he had installed a longtime Vatican official as Primate of Brazil, where many bishops condone the leftist liberation...
...white arm of racism strikes back. May: Birmingham public-safety commissioner "Bull" Connor turns his dogs and his fire hoses on demonstrators. June: in Jackson, Miss., Medgar Evers is murdered. September: four black children are killed in a Birmingham church bombing. The following summer promised the climax to a melodrama that would be scored to either We Shall Overcome or Mississippi Goddam...