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...their fourth and newest album, Stars, they're still at it. But despite his vocal mastery, Hucknall has taken flak from critics who accuse him of ripping off black music. He fires back that the record industry's marketing of music along racial lines reflects something deeper in Americans, to whom he says, "Black music by and for black people, white music by and for white people; that's one of the reasons you have such divisions in your society...
...nymphet is a vamp in The Lover (L'Amant), Jean-Jacques Annaud's adaptation of the Marguerite Duras best seller. With its carnal couplings and a hint of hard core, the film was a Hollywood-size hit in France. Annaud also took some flak: for shooting a very French conte d'amour in English; for choosing pouty English actress Jane March as the girl; and mostly for rejecting Duras's script in favor of one by Gerard Brach. (Duras then wrote a new version of her story, The North China Lover, in the elliptical, present- tense style of a screenplay...
...much that Bush regretted the substance of what he had done. Mostly, he admitted, he regretted the political "flak" he was getting for the move. Nor did Bush wish he had done more to cut spending instead of raising taxes; running against Buchanan, Bush now posed as the defender of Social Security and Medicare subsidies...
...flak jackets. Former Secretary of State HENRY KISSINGER will face tough questions when he testifies next week before the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. Investigators for the committee claim they have constructed a "damning case" against Kissinger for ineptness and insensitivity regarding pows and mias during the Paris peace talks in 1973. The committee has heard from a score of witnesses, including several Pentagon officials, who maintain that many Americans were left behind when the Nixon Administration brought servicemen home at the conclusion of the talks. Insiders say the hearing will be "tough on Dr. K." Kissinger will...
That's pretty much the story of the last decade. People can no longer say and do horrible things in public, so they've flocked to private societies where they won't take flak for it. And courts have been increasingly wary about opening closed ranks, whether they're the ranks of the Fly or an exclusive country club...