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...really always stressed that friendship and the working-class communities in Cambridge were such an important facet in Cambridge life," the councillor recalls. "I want very much for working-class people to be more involved with the city's government...
Eight gay men on three summer weekends: a simple device for Terrence McNally's elegant meditations on manhood and friendship, maturity and mortality. This witty, generous, intimate epic (in a pristine off-Broadway production directed by Joe Mantello) follows McNally's Lips Together, Teeth Apart and A Perfect Ganesh. By now he has to be rated our most consistently satisfying playwright...
...reviving the cold war. In the midst of his blast during the CSCE meeting, Yeltsin took care to insist, "We are no longer enemies, but partners." But however one- sided his expression, there is a very real danger that what just a short time ago looked like a blossoming friendship will indeed degenerate into a mere cold peace...
...Russia strains may get even worse when the new Republican Congress takes office. While the Clinton Administration has made friendship with Moscow a top foreign-policy priority, the conservatives who will run key committees are inclined to mistrust even a non-Communist Russia. In particular, some incoming congressional powers are likely to look on Russian financial aid with a jaundiced eye, believing -- with some reason -- that much of it has been stolen or misused. They may try either to cut the total, or to redirect some of it to Ukraine and other former Soviet republics. That would intensify another Russian...
...original murder case, the sexual element of the friendship was played up, and the girls became infamous as lesbian killers. Jackson certainly doesn't tone down the sexual angle in his film version. As shocking as the relationship may have seemed in 1954 New Zealand, it could seem hackneyed in this post-Kinsey day and age. However, in spite of modern omniscience and in spite (or because) of the overwrought treatment it receives in the film, the relationship convinces. Pauline writes in her diary that now she understands "the joy of this thing called sin," and after the bathtub scenes...