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...fantasy this year was darker, more disturbing. One of the prime Palme d'Or contenders, Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves, is a tale of religious and romantic belief, a kind of Song of Bernadette with a goofy, hand-held camera style and a bit of full-frontal. Yet the heroine's ultimate act of faith is to board a ship to be fatally abused by vicious sailors. She might have been seeking her rendezvous with God on a nightmare version of the PRIVATE ship...
...blunt and remarkably plain language, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declared that the University of Texas law school could not use different admission standards for minority students than it does for white applicants. The court's decision was a frontal assault on the current law of the land--embodied in the Supreme Court's 1978 Bakke decision--which prohibits quotas but allows schools to consider race as a factor in college applications...
...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...