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...Brotherhood is Iris Murdoch's 23rd novel. That number alone does not fully convey the amazing range of her productivity. For as seasoned Murdoch readers can attest, she has seldom been content simply to tell one story at a time. Her fiction typically doubles up, offering both explicit and subterranean tales. On the surface, civilized, well-educated characters move about in theoretical freedom, working out their destinies according to the dictates of reason and plausibility. But actually they are in thrall to hidden forces, submerged patterns, in danger of being swallowed up, say, by the plot of a gothic novel...
Last week Hart's problems took on a new dimension when his old nemesis, the Miami Herald, reported that Hollywood Video Mogul Stuart Karl, distributor of Jane Fonda workout tapes, had paid $15,802 of Hart's campaign expenses in 1984, despite an explicit limit of $1,000 on individual campaign contributions. The paper also reported that Karl picked up the tab for private jet flights, funded an aide who has been working full time for Hart, and agreed to settle an unpaid $96,000 loan to Hart for 10 cents on the dollar...
...ironies abound. As the Phillips crowd separates itself from the mainstream conservatives who had been their allies for the past seven years, the Republican presidential candidates pander to the radical Phillipsian fringe of their party. Aside from Bush, none have been willing to give their explicit support for the INF treaty. Instead, they insist in courting Phillips and his followers, despite their lack of concern for--indeed, understanding of--constitutional principles...
...labor camp; their search is in vain, but another woman does spot her husband's initials and caresses them tenderly. Another memorable sequence shows the defendant's artist father, dressed only in a white loincloth, hanging by his wrists like the crucified Christ. It is one of several explicit religious images that portray the struggle of good against evil in a way that unfailingly identifies the latter with officialdom and the former with its victims. Lest the viewer miss this point, Varlam appears as the devil in one scene...
...television persons." Broadcasters and civil libertarians, meanwhile, continue to object that the commission's definition of indecency is distressingly vague. Most network and local station officials insist that their standard on what is permissible will not change because of the ruling. Still, it could open the way for more explicit radio conversation in the wee hours, more uncut movies on post-midnight TV, and perhaps even a few more naughty words sneaking by the censor on Late Night with David Letterman...