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...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...
...bipartisan group of senators may quietly succeed, if only incrementally, where President Clinton's frontal assault on the health-care system failed. The Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee today passed health insurances changes that would make it easier for millions of Americans to keep health insurance coverage when they switch jobs or get sick -- one of Clinton's central reform goals. Under the Health Insurance Reform Act, which should reach the Senate floor this fall, no one who continues to pay insurance premiums can be excluded for health reasons or saddled with a new waiting period simply because...
...Fanger] felt that at Radcliffe, she was seeing it [the dancers' frontal nudity] from much farther away and she didn't notice it as much," Shapiro added...
...When I saw [the piece] in a theatre for anintimate audience, I saw a piece that concludedwith full frontal nudity by a beautiful womanunder bright lights, followed by full frontalnudity from a man." Fanger said...