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...sudden!', with cogent comments by Gore Vidal, Harvey Fierstein, Quentin Crisp and others. But the final irony of the film may be that Hollywood, with its dozens of gay stars, its hundreds of gays in positions of creative and executive power, is still afraid to depict homosexual life: the world Hollywood knows, and could persuasively dramatize, Corliss says. "The whole town, timid as ever, resides in one huge, beautifully appointed celluloid closet. It?s safer, cozier in there. Why would anyone want to come...
...zeal to generate discussion about controversial issues, I may have gone too far on occasion. But I'm certainly not the evil conservative that the liberal establishment likes to depict all of its foes as. In real life, I'm a soft-spoken, mellow fellow who smiles and nods a lot. If I am guilty of anything. I would say (to borrow from Shakespeare) that I have loved opinion writing and debate over issues "not wisely, but too well...
...following might be just too horrifying and dangerous for some to depict in their minds. But the folks at the Harvard Model Security Council summarize it all in a grim joke: "China invades Taiwan. You are Taiwan. Your choices--swim, or go buy a Mao suit...
Conn, an impeccably tailored Clark Kent type who would have done just fine in front of the cameras, says he will offer a "blow-by-blow re-creation of the shootings to depict the horror of the crime and how unnecessary and brutal these killings were." Conn will direct the jurors' attention to the murder of Kitty in particular, who he says got "lost in the shuffle" during the first trial. "Whether or not [the brothers] felt a threat from Jose," says Conn, "there was no reason to believe there was a threat from their mother...
Ironically entitled the "Citizens' Legislature Amendment," term limitation represents nothing less than an effort to systematically skew the membership of Congress toward traditional Republican constituencies. Harking back to the rhetoric of Jefferson and Madison, term-limiters romantically depict a Congress of non-professional yeoman legislators. Taking advantage of hot-button political reflexes, conservatives' ideological appeals to the ideal of citizen legislators do not adequately disclose the types of people who will probably take advantage of the `new accessibility to office holding.' As Professor of Government Morris Fiorina writes, such a system "advantages the independently wealthy, professionals with private practices, independent...