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...bill would continue to give an overwhelming preference to those with close relatives in the U.S. To the delight of human-rights activists, the proposed measure would also lift the McCarthy-era blanket bans on Communists and homosexuals. And in another break with current practice, the Department of Health and Human Services has been empowered, at its discretion, to end the ban on AIDS-infected foreigners seeking to enter...
Americans delight in making private moments public. Witness the success of America's Funniest Home Videos, which has been called "the hottest show on TV." But the succession of gags and goofs surrounding birthdays and family outings is tepid fare compared with the truly incendiary movies viewers are making for home consumption only. The subject? Their sex lives. Propping their camcorders and dropping their inhibitions, more and more couples are videotaping their closest encounters. Rob Lowe, it seems, is not alone...
Still, the plethora of choices ought to delight readers for the moment -- except that, to judge by early issues, most of the recent entrants are woefully short of ideas. They are also a bit short on diversity: both story subjects and models (the magazines are greatly concerned with clothes) are overwhelmingly white. The very fact of homosexuality is largely ignored. Three competitors are in their opening month or two: Details, a bratty, street- talking melange aimed at men in their 20s and early 30s; Men's Life, a smirky yet sentimental blend of National Lampoon and the Saturday Evening Post...
SITTING PRETTY (New World Records). Conductor John McGlinn deserves some kind of sainthood for resurrecting this 1924 Jerome Kern delight. Amid its jolly ebullience, moments of gentler lyricism look ahead to such works as Show Boat and Roberta. Perfectly cast and impossible to resist...
...only does this unique constraint provide the audience with moments of conspiratorial delight (we know, for example, that Robert has discovered the affair before Jerry knows), but it also invests the final, earliest scene with a sense of pathos that would be absent in a more traditional arranging of the play's events. This affair is, quite literally, doomed from the start, and the convincing passion which Ducey and Cottingham demonstrate in the play's final scenes elicits our sympathy in one of the play's few genuinely touching moments...