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...film begins, David (Vladimir Cruz), a young student of political science and committed member of the ruling Communist Party, wanders dispiritedly around Havana because his girl-friend has chosen to marry another man. At one of the city's famous ice cream parlors, David meets Diego (Jorge Perugorria), a thirty-something homosexual who tries to pick him up. David rebuffs Diego's advances, but eventually agrees to accompany the older man to his apartment because Diego has promised to give him some hard-to-get books which are forbidden under Cuban censorship laws...
Richard's other ethical dilemma concerns Cordelia, who has decided that he and what she calls his Russian girl-friend are having an affair well before they in fact begin...
...friend of mine recently tried to commit suicide. He was not discouraged by an inordinate amount of trouble with organic chemistry. He was not despondent over a recent break-up with a long-time girl-friend. He was not having trouble making friends or getting along with his parents. Though these can all be powerful reasons to be upset, his reason was much more compelling...
...universal appeal. Scrawled in the liner notes is a boxed phrase: "NOTHIN TO SING BOUT." In a recent interview in Raygun Malkmus addressed this problem, admitting that when he recorded this album he didn't have anything "poetic and beautiful to say, and I wasn't having girl-friend problems." He just didn't have the inspiration, I guess; the best moments are those that reveal a vague angst, best summed up in the melancholy chorus of "Range Life": "If I could settle down, then I would settle down." On paper it looks pretty straightforward, but in the song, with...
...wife Leonora, who left him so she could make something of herself and now attends college. The two have since moved on to other love interests; Leonora, known as Lee, has been seeing her English professor (William Hurt), and Gus has been contemplating moving in with his devoted girl-friend, Rita (Mary Louise Parker) Contact between Gus and Lee is typically unamicable, filled with mutual accusations concerning who brought about the failure of their marriage. Their squabbles can't conceal that these two are bound to fall for each other inthe...