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TRACY CHAPMAN: TRACY CHAPMAN (Elektra). Forthright, angry new folk music from a 24-year-old Bostonian. Short on subtlety, maybe, but supple and generous of heart...
...suggest an intriguing sexual ambivalence: Christopher Plummer's feline grace vs. Glenda Jackson's vulpine ferocity, his moody introspection vs. her forthright speech and action. Alas, what sounds like explosive chemistry proves inert. The missing catalyst is a directorial idea of what the play is about, a point of view. From the opening declamatory rant of a wounded soldier to the final hortatory hollowness of the youth who supplants Macbeth, volume substitutes for meaning. This fish stinks from the head: Plummer copes with the poetry of "tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" by denaturing it in monotone; Jackson distracts attention from...
...risk of stirring controversy, insurance executives have been perfectly forthright concerning their policies toward potential AIDS victims. Responding to a survey conducted by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, 51 of 61 insurance companies admitted that they screen or plan to screen health- insurance applicants for signs of the AIDS virus. Half the firms give blood tests for the presence of AIDS antibodies, a sign that the applicant could be stricken with the disease...
BACK TO the debate, the two candidates who came off the best were Gore and Haig. Though sweating a lot from the t.v. lights, Gore was the most serious and forthright Democrat. He was the only one who didn't patronize Rainbow Coalition Founder Jesse Jackson, pestering the reverend for his muddled views on the re-flagging of Kuwaiti oil-tankers. Haig was far less screechy than the other right-wingers on the panel who lambasted the I.N.F. treaty and didn't come off as smug as did the more moderate Dole and Bush. But he's already been Secretary...
House Speaker Jim Wright, (D-Tx.), told reporters he had read the executive summary of the report and believes that it is a "straight, honest, forthright declaration of the facts...