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This is a declaration of love: The Opposite of Sex is the smartest, edgiest, most human and handsomely acted romantic comedy in elephant years. It's got enough plot, in 100 spiky minutes, for an entire season of Melrose Place (if that show were totally weird and funny). It has two births, two deaths, five sexual affairs and no special effects. Writer-director Don Roos' film also has a gnarled wisdom about modern romance, straight and gay, that makes it a road-movie Chasing Amy, a Heathers for the whole postnuclear family...
...movie: an earnest, naive, fitfully engrossing film with urgent performances and a final plot twist that stretches credulity to the snapping point. But because the subject is the Black Panther Party for Self Defense-the notorious cadre of black radicals that incited and attracted much of the '60s edgiest violence-Panther is more than a movie. It's the cause of raucous dispute, a chance for opening and licking old wounds about the party, an excuse for debating both the sorry condition of today's urban blacks and the responsibility, if any, of filmmakers to get the facts straight...
World's fairs have traditionally been epicenters of earnestness. Expo '92 must be the first with strong whiffs of deliberate irony and in-your-face perversity. The Red Cross, of all people, has erected one of the edgiest, most bizarro world pavilions of all, with red steel I beams shooting past thin white metal uprights at queer angles, red brick walls zigzagging crazily. Deconstructivism, a fading fad, has found its perfect project not a moment too soon: according to an Expo spokeswoman, the architecture is an allusion to the Red Cross's role in assisting victims of earthquakes...
...Graphics. The cable channel's high-spirited ten-second promotional spots, based on a logo created by Manhattan Design, are among the edgiest, unruliest and altogether most intriguing graphic images produced today...
...guitarists-tend to create merely a competing and attacking noise in the city's soundscape. But the new minstrels are proving that a classical trio creates a sweet enclave of harmony in the midst of confusion, which draws a respectful audience and melts the hostility of even the edgiest urban refugee...