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...tiny, blue-eyed Mediterranean fruit fly has a way of provoking political distemper in California. In 1981, amid a furor over spraying to control a 1,400-sq.-mi. outbreak, the director of the California Conservation Corps flamboyantly swallowed and survived a big -- albeit heavily diluted -- mouthful of the insecticide Malathion to demonstrate its safety. Nothing quite so theatrical has been attempted during the latest medfly visitation, which began five months ago. But state food and agriculture department officials responsible for the anti-medfly campaign have stood under a drizzle of the pesticide showering from a helicopter. Unconvinced, some irate...
...furor has also hit the media. A recent segment of the popular TV series L.A. Law involved a furrier who sued an animal-rights group for ruining his business. The show aired gruesome video clips of animals caught in brutal leg traps. On an upcoming episode of Designing Women, narcissistic Suzanne Sugarbaker is mauled by anti-fur activists. When Atlanta disk jockey Scott Woodside this month mentioned that he had bought his wife a mink coat, listeners deluged his station with calls. The result was an informal poll in which the anti-fur forces carried...
...said some teachers were upset at the tone of the editorial, but the editorial and subsequent action didn't set off a furor at school, comparing the situation to a coach pulling a poor quarterback off the team...
Despite these conclusions, the Administration is using the furor over Panama to seek more leeway to assist a coup that, while not intended to kill Noriega or another foreign leader, might wind up doing just that. At the same time, Bush last week assured the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence that he would give it "timely notice" of covert actions, at least within a matter of days (in contrast to the ten months that Ronald Reagan once took...
...this sophisticated maneuvering and teasing creates a sexy atmosphere. The love scenes are done with suggestive fade-outs and oblique, not quite discernable, soft-focus close-ups that are more erotic than today's obligatory nudity; they reveal the source of some of the original furor over the film. In fact, a number of the scenes look familiar, and one, which has Valmont calling Marianne while he is lounging on the bare Cecilia doing her homework, is paraphrased in the later film...