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...since Noel Coward . . . well, has a comic dramatist written vernacular dialogue this smart this fast. Hughes has been known to bat out 74 script pages in a night; no first draft takes more than a week. Such informed, automatic writing demands that you live inside your subject, and for Hughes the bell is always ringing on the first day of class. "He has an incredible memory--visual, audio, emotional--of his own high school years," notes James Spader, who played the deliciously haughty preppie Steff in Pretty in Pink. "He's very much in touch with the adolescent part...
Last week the commission made its conclusions public: a "causal relationship" does indeed exist between sexually violent or degrading pornography and violence toward women. In a draft report, the panel stated that such materials help to foster the "rape myth," that women enjoy being overpowered. "General acceptance of the view that 'no' means 'yes' is a consequence of the most serious proportions," wrote the panel. "Sexually explicit materials featuring violence (are) on the whole harmful to society...
...long-range weapons, Kampelman is cautiously hopeful that an agreement can be reached on the limitation of medium-range missiles. The Soviets are eager for some type of accord that Mikhail Gorbachev can point to if he joins Reagan at a summit this year. Last week they presented a draft treaty incorporating their earlier proposals for reducing medium-range weapons. Kampelman was quick to knock it down. "There was nothing new in that treaty," said the diplomat. "It was merely a formal treaty carrying out statements they had previously made...
...Mass last week, the Cardinal used his homily to defend the right to strike, which was among the guarantees suspended in October. He warned sternly that "Marxism does not have the solution for the working class." In the past Obando has attacked Nicaragua's unpopular universal military draft and urged young men to enter seminaries as a way of avoiding it. He has urged the government to negotiate with the contra rebels and declined to condemn the Reagan Administration's effort to provide the guerrillas with $100 million in U.S. funding, a stand that prompted d'Escoto / to label...
Perhaps this help is slowly forthcoming. A pamphlet released in draft form last month by a low-profile graduate-student group called Students for Empowerment seems to indicate that at least a few people out there are upset enough to write out a thoughtful, six-page indictment of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities...