Word: frontal
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...timid. So when much of the country praised Bob Dole recently for breaking a legislative logjam and reopening the Federal Government, Gramm, alone among his rivals, rushed a TV spot onto the air that claimed the Senate leader had "caved in" on a balanced budget. Gramm's frontal attack was a bold gamble that Dole's statesmanship, while it wins praise with Americans generally, might bomb with G.O.P. conservatives in the first big presidential contest next month...
...Interior Ministry allows them to use another route. Although the Interfax news agency reports that Russian helicopters have fired several shots at the bus convoy, Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin promised that no action would be taken that would endanger the hostages' lives: "We aren't going to start frontal attacks, or act according to an eye-for-an-eye principle, since we feel convinced that death only brings death," he said. "But the bandits and the terrorists will be punished." The Prime Minister added that Russia would never meet the separatists' longstanding demand for independence: "Chechnya is Russia." Reports...
Fanger made news this summer when she reportedly asked a dance troop choreographed and directed by Iynn Shapiro to alter a performance in the Faculty Performance Dance Series because it contained female frontal nudity...
...moves with the fevered outrage of an Oliver Stone melodram--Natural Born Killers meets Heaven and Earth. Most Indian movies are either humid musical fables or languid art films in the Satyajit Ray mold. Bandit Queen is neither. It is an assaultive experience, blistering with ripe obscenities, the frontal nudity of its star and three stark scenes in which Phoolan is raped--enough to have the film banned 10 times over in a country where a bare shoulder can send the censors frothing...
...Barker, Phoolan Devi in the early 1980's became a folk hero as head of a band of outlaws preying on India's corrupt elite. Her movie bio, saysTIME's Richard Corliss, "has an Indian heart but a Hollywood pulse; an assaultive experience, blistering with ripe obscenities, the frontal nudity of its star and three stark scenes in which Phoolan is raped --- enough to have the film banned 10 times over in a country where a bare shoulder can send the censors frothing." "Bandit Queen" was indeed banned in India, but for what director Shekhar Kapur says are political reasons...