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...bundle of neat, often amusing analogies. De Palma has something richer-and more relevant-in mind than parodying a theatrical property he knows is too old and, in its way, too good for mere camp treatment. He has borrowed the plot as a vehicle to satirize the whole corrupt, pretentious and self-important world of pop culture...
...insisted that this sort of personal philanthropy was a matter of family tradition. Appearing to be personally wounded by the criticism, he lamented the fact that "sharing with others has become a political issue. Not one of the gifts or loans I have made was designed to corrupt." He resorted to one of the homely analogies he likes to use: "You're sitting there eating apples, and nobody else has an apple to eat. I'm sure there isn't a person under those circumstances who wouldn't say, 'Well, doesn't everybody want...
...current exhibition, The Changing Image: Prints by Francisco Goya. For Goya was molded by the age of Rousseau and Voltaire and the French Revolution--The Age of Reason. For Goya, as well as for his contemporaries, a belief in human reason was the answer to an age of corrupt religion, incompetent monarchy and political turmoil. If Goya's portraits, commissioned as they were by the Spanish aristocracy, show only a glimmer of his belief in man as the measure of all things, the etchings he made as an independent artist need no such subtlety...
Earlier in the week, Thieu, a Roman Catholic convert, had tried to appease his opponents by firing the notoriously corrupt commanders of three of the country's four military "corps." Among those busted was General Nguyen Vinh Nghi, of IV Corps (the Mekong Delta), who has long been suspected of pocketing the salaries of some 36,000 "phantom troops"-men who are on the payroll but nowhere else in the military. Thieu also cashiered 377 corrupt officers and dismissed four Cabinet ministers, including his cousin and confidant, Information Minister Hoang Due Nha, 32, who was responsible for censoring...
...into nightmare. Two hoodlums pick up Hicks' trail the moment he arrives in Berkeley. He and Marge escape with the heroin, but when Converse gets home he walks into a trap. The thugs are not, as it happens, emissaries from the underworld but something worse: agents for a corrupt federal officer, bent on picking off the heroin for himself before staging a phony drug bust on Converse and his accomplices. The chase that follows is unforgettable...