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HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP is an important movie--the first time I have ever seen the rapist in every male moviegoer come out of the closet. It was long overdue, since rape-and-murder occupies more entertainment time than any other subject except love. I don't think a night goes by without some prime-time detective battling a lady-killer, without shapely blondes and brunettes in tennis or go-go or hooker regalia done away with by nasty hitmen or mixed-up innocents who were teased by girls in high school...
Should the left--primarily Blacks, students and feminists--stay home, it will send a message that it cannot be counted on to always back the lesser of three evils. It will also hand the election to Ronald Wilson Reagan, the bogey-man in the closet whose image every speaker this week has summoned in an effort to keep the troops in line. There are those who say a Reagan presidency would be the best thing that could happen to the left--four years of fascism, they reason, might turn Americans into leftists again. The people who talk like this most...
...apex of three convergent lines. Through the role, he has inherited the Kennedy legend. In marrying a Hollywood superstar, he became a consort Arthur to Elizabeth Taylor's hot-copy Guenevere. To this moment, he indisputably speaks the King's English, something that still makes every closet colonial in America tug his forelock. Burton will make Camelot prosper, but even he, with his nimble intelligence, could scarcely impart any logic to the show. The story is a love triangle; yet, the nature of that love is never articulated. Does Queen Guenevere (Christine Ebersole) love King Arthur (Burton...
...Wall Street of Michael Thomas' first novel knows all about bears and bulls. It is soon to learn about camels. The Kingdom, a Middle Eastern country easily confused with Saudi Arabia, has a problem: too much money and not enough closet space. What should it do with the endless trunkloads of dollars it exchanges for limitless barrels of oil? After all, the Kingdom feels the pinch of inflation too: every time it raises the price of crude, its dollars depreciate. Everyone is caught in a viscous circle-until the entrance of David Harrison, American freelance financial adviser, connoisseur...
...cursed like a navvy, hurled his racquet, hectored officials and bellyached over every close call. "I was crazy, a madman on the court. It was awful. Then the club I belonged to suspended me for five months, and my mother, she took my racquet and locked it in the closet. For five months, she locked up my racquet. After that I never opened my mouth again on the tennis court. Since the day I came back from that suspension, no matter what happened, I behaved on the court...