Word: essays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...impressed, to be sure, by the conclusions which Gomes draws on the particular subject of homosexuality, but I am excited more by the broad program for Christian ethics which he seems to describe. I confess that before I had read Gomes's essay, at the same time so marvelously urbane and yet so devoutly pious, I should scarcely have believed that the freedom of the Christian was so compendiously broad...
...ESSAY Michael Kinsley on David Duke and America's decline...
Leonard Michaels's essay on Gilda offers the corresponding male version. Michaels recalls his first awareness of sexuality sparked by a seductive Rita Hayworth belting out "Put the Blame on Mame." He reminisces: "If it was a real feeling, could I be violated by it, my own real feeling? Could it happen to anyone? If so, could anyone ever be a good person...
Bradley's account, like most pieces in Movie, is convincing and sensitive. However, it is just one essay in a collection which is impressively diverse, both in terms of the writers' perspectives and the movies discussed. The Movie That Changed My Life adds an imaginative and unique element to film criticism...
...ESSAY: Is California really wacky? Or does its flaky image hide a deeper and more disturbing truth...