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Jong's best seller Fear of Flying (1973) became an emblem for the sexual revolution and women's liberation. With Any Woman's Blues, Jong is trying to put her mark on the '80s, when safe sex replaced free love and materialism, and addiction treatment became the ruling ethos. With no irony intended, she creates as her heroine a sex addict who goes to A.A. meetings, a free-spirited artist who uses a Lalique bowl to paint a still life and wears Zandra Rhodes...
...that, in the manner of Georges Simenon's novels, treats melodramatic subjects with clinical dispassion. Chabrol never coddles viewers; he trusts them to sort out the evidence. His Marie is too complicated to be either a monster or a savior. And Huppert's beautifully deadpan performance finds the ideal emblem for Marie, a vessel empty of everything but human contradictions...
...Barbera's dilemma is increasingly common among American women. Until recently, owning a fur coat, usually a mink, was an unquestioned emblem of luxury and social status. But lately a growing cadre of animal-rights activists has been aggressively denouncing such garments as "sadist symbols" that, they say, require the deaths of some 70 million helpless creatures each year (about 50 minks for each coat). That emotional claim has touched off a bitter battle that pits the animal lobby against fur owners and an increasingly embattled fur industry. So nasty have the hostilities become that in some cities around...
...lights--making up a "Veritas" emblem, modeled after dining hall cups, a Christmas tree and a "93" for the students' class year--were pulled down by a group of first-years leaving a party on Friday, according to a Hollis resident present at the incident...
...funereal pinstriping of an early Frank Stella. Today the stripe continues to linger in the wings of late modernism and is the adopted sign of one of the most toughly individual artists in America, Sean Scully. What, after so many other stripes, has he made of it? Not the emblem of a lost utopianism but something fierce, concrete and obsessive, with a grandeur shaded by awkwardness -- a stripe like no one else...