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...marking the birthplace of the Hindu god Rama. The militants demand that a temple to Rama be built on the spot. India's Muslim minority fiercely objects to the plan. As tension has mounted in recent weeks, at least 400 people, most of them Muslims, have been killed in communal rioting...
...school prayers and cut off birth-control funds, as in the cant of the Reagan years, but to equalize women's wages and provide family leave for both sexes. Tax breaks would go to firms that allow job sharing and flextime, and to developers who build affordable housing with communal meal-preparation facilities. (A problem she does not mention is that many employers do encourage part-time work, often as a way to avoid paying for medical insurance and other benefits.) Using the phrase of another sociologist, the author calls for a "Marshall Plan for the Family," in which government...
...icons come in two models. The comics (Bill Murray, Tom Hanks, Eddie Murphy) trade in hip facetiousness, in sitcom-size emotions, in the suave hustling of attitude. The hunks (Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Clint Eastwood) go crusading for the Grail, the heavyweight title, the urban psycho, but have few communal roots; they are loners, in quest only of the quest. Suspended between these two types is young Tom Cruise -- a certified star in search of an enduring identity...
...communal nature of the production and its effort to involve the audience turn Hair into a ritual celebration of the 1960s, designed to transport both cast and viewers back to that mythical time. When the irresistible force of the "Let the Sunshine In" finale pulled the audience onstage to dance with the hippies, the childhood link was forged again...
...made structure. A wayward cyclist stops out of curiosity and enters an empty house of worship: "Once I am sure there's nothing going on/ I step inside, letting the door thud shut." That offhand "nothing going on" builds slowly to signify a loss of faith, of ritual and communal practices. There are no tears, but neither is there comfort; we are, for better and worse...