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...January-February 1973). It included Donald Richie's report on Japanese eroductions, Ray Durgnat on Jess Franco, Stephen Farber on sexual censorship in California, my long interview with Metzger and Ebert's definitive study of Meyer (which is quoted in the first pages of The Other Hollywood. My favorite essay, a real startler, was Brendan Gill's on porno films. Brendan, a New Yorker staff writer for a half-century, and author of the magazine's unofficial history, Here at the New Yorker, was a man of many passions, from theater to architecture to women, and in a sweet seizure...
...sweatshirt around town or console yourself after bombing a midterm by thinking of how many brilliant minds you beat out to get here, think twice. You only had to score well on a measly SAT, drop some big words in an interview, and write an appropriately maudlin 500 word essay. You don’t know how easy...
...word cable, divided into five sections like a Puritan sermon, that called the containment of the Soviet Union's expansionist instincts "undoubtedly the greatest task our diplomacy has ever faced." What became known as "the Long Telegram" shook up the foreign policy establishment, as did a subsequent essay he wrote for Foreign Affairs magazine. His doctrine galvanized an array of initiatives to compete with the Soviets, among them the Marshall Plan, NATO, the World Bank and Radio Free Europe. It was an approach that policymakers today would do well to study as they face a similar global challenge...
Andrew Sullivan's Essay on abortion presented a sound middle ground for those on both sides of the issue to approach [March 7]. I hope the argument of moral consequences vs. a woman's right to choose can be set aside in order to focus on what everyone really wants: fewer abortions. As a staunch pro-lifer and Christian, I have a hard time admitting that we need to increase access to contraception, but I certainly would accept pills and condoms (with a healthy dose of lessons on abstinence and self-control) to avoid the taking of human life...
...recent essay “Who is that mad black woman,” Roger Ebert reports that his one-star review of Diary elicited more angry correspondence than any other film he has ever reviewed—including Fahrenheit 9/11 and The Passion of the Christ combined...