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...Broadway is infused with a gay sensibility. But never before has an out-of-the-closet play like Torch Song done so well with straight, middle-class audiences. For 3 hours and 40 minutes they enter into the life of Arnold Beckoff, who makes his living performing as a drag queen in a New York City nightclub. He falls in love with a schoolteacher, loses him to a woman, then falls in love again, only to have that lover killed by a gang of gay baiters. What Arnold really wants is to have a family, like everyone else...
...other officers managed to drag the gravely wounded Matthews out, then opened fire on the house. The house went up in flames after a smoke bomb was thrown down an air vent. Thousands of rounds of ammunition, apparently stored inside, exploded. Said State Trooper Charles Harper: "We just pulled back and waited three and a half hours until it cooled down. It was raining hard, and lightning was striking all around. We didn't know which would get us first, the lightning or the bullets...
...reply: "Don't you think he speaks English, you dumb son of a bitch? Pack your bag and get out!" The boy recovers and grows into an excruciating adolescence. He tentatively displays a picture of his new girlfriend. The father's response: "What are you doing in drag...
...speeches drew an unusually high level of protest and heckling--one by the Rev. Jerry Falwell at the Kennedy School, the other by the leading American official of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. The Moral Majority leader attracted a crowd of students--some dressed in drag and some in Falwell costumes--who protested his positions against the nuclear freeze and women's issues. Abdul Rahman, director of the PLO Information Office drew more serious protests for his statements that Israel was responsible for genocide in the Middle East...
ANYTHING with as much publicity and general puff power as the Star Wars saga has received is just building up to a grand letdown. Those of us who were 13 when the original Star Wars came out immediately fell in love with it, dragging parents and friends to see it for the fifth and sixth times. The special effects were then amazingly original. We plastered our walls with Star Wars posters, traded Star Wars cards, and bought the famous Star Wars theme on vinyl. When we became sophisticated 16-year-olds in time for the second installment. The Empire Strikes...