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...clearings. Farther from the water, the canopied forest suits chimpanzees. With both populations at very high levels, the Ndoki is one of the few places on earth where chimps and gorillas live close together. Fay and the Japanese researchers have even seen gorillas and chimps feeding in the same fig tree...
...sensible compromise -- to release Basic Instinct in both its original (NC-17) and moderated (R) versions -- is not allowed by the motion-picture association. The probable outcome is that like other films embroiled in ratings wrangles, Basic Instinct will be shown fig-leafed in the U.S. but fully frontal abroad and, later, on home video. In that scenario, the bluenoses and bean counters win; consenting adults and ambitious moviemakers lose. And once again a crucial question goes begging: if movies are allowed to make violence terrifying -- as in such acclaimed dramas as The Silence of the Lambs, Cape Fear...
Once the audience overcomes its confusion, however, the play becomes enjoyable. Marcus is charismatic and insane--he teases May about her date and jokes "I'm gonna turn him into a fig," laughing hysterically. Marcus mesmerizingly taunts Ben Davis, who steals the show as Martin, May's meek date...
...national legislature. My anguished rationale for supporting the President -- oil, aggression and cynicism about sanctions -- turned into a footnote once Congress voted; what mattered was that at last proper constitutional norms had been followed. How easy it had been during Vietnam (a war mounted under the dubious fig leaf of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution) to reject personal complicity in the carnage. Blame, as I do, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger for the names on the wailing wall in Washington. But today, for the first time in my life, I freely accept, as an American citizen, responsibility...
...neither, it appears, can Saddam Hussein. The fig leaves Saddam could seize to justify withdrawing from Kuwait have been available from the beginning. The Kuwaitis themselves have consistently said they are willing to negotiate over Iraq's grievances. Even the international peace conference that Saddam posits as a price for leaving Kuwait is possible -- or at least the promise of such a meeting is. The U.S. desire to avoid linkage is basically a semantic exercise, and the offers of explicit linkage carried by middlemen like the French and the Algerians could at any time be used by Saddam to save...