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...self-professed role as witness and writer of American culture, combined with his (usually) capable ear for linguistic nuance, danger lies in the delicacy of Wolfe’s role as decoder of American life. That’s because in Charlotte Simmons he doesn’t merely depict undergraduate life—he damns it. And he damns it with the paltry evidence he marshals in page after innumerable page of colorful but ultimately stereotypical “evidence...
Contrast today with the early 1970s, when movies like Straw Dogs, The Devils, Last Tango in Paris and Nichols' own Carnal Knowledge promised a future of truly adult depictions of sex. At the same time, the first wave of porno chic lured the curious to the burgeoning genre of hard-core. It seemed as if these two types of films might meet--that cinema might learn to depict the ordinary, universal and melodramatic collision of two bodies, two souls, in bed. But those days, and those hopes, are deader than disco. Hollywood's erotic audacity and artistic pretensions have shriveled...
...Time for Determination After the flurry of car bombings, hostage takings and beheadings in Iraq [Oct. 25], I find it disturbing when the media depict these killers as "insurgents" or "resistance fighters." A fuss is made over every foreign-civilian casualty in the green zone, the headquarters of the U.S. administration in Baghdad, while the Iraqi-civilian casualties of terrorist acts get scant coverage. And how is the U.S. policy of winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis going to work in a terrorist haven like Fallujah, where many of the citizens are collaborating with the extremists? Any peaceful means...
After the flurry of car bombings, hostage takings and beheadings in Iraq, I find it disturbing for the media to depict these killers as "insurgents" or "resistance fighters." A fuss is made over every foreign civilian casualty in the green zone, the headquarters of the U.S. administration in Baghdad, while the Iraqi civilian casualties of terrorist acts get scant coverage. And how is the U.S. policy of winning the hearts and minds of Iraqis going to work in a terrorist haven like Fallujah, where many of the citizens are collaborating with the extremists? Any peaceful means of conflict settlement...
...only and should be free to secede from the Union. Or is that our democracy's only forbidden desire? Anthony Flood New York City A Time for Determination After the flurry of car bombings, hostage takings and beheadings in Iraq [Oct. 25], I find it disturbing when the media depict these killers as "insurgents" or "resistance fighters." A fuss is made over every foreign civilian casualty in the green zone, the headquarters of the U.S. administration in Baghdad, while the Iraqi civilian casualties of terrorist acts get scant coverage. And how is the U.S. policy of winning the hearts...