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Whites "go along" with this because "when yougloss with oppression, you gloss yourself withcompassion," Steele said. Whites are oftenunwilling to hold Blacks accountable for theiractions, lest they be accused of lackingcompassion, he said...
...There is also a bondage subtext that climaxes with Jack handcuffed to a bed and Mona in dominatrix black leather. Possibly writer Hilary Henkin sees Mona as a woman empowered by a brutal feminism. Possibly director Peter Medak, who specializes in Eurotrash artiness, sees the film as an upscale gloss on the gangster genre. Everyone else will observe that in structure and intent it is soft-core porn and, since it is written by a woman, something for Andrea Dworkin and Catherine MacKinnon to ponder...
Harvard (3-6 overall) will be looking to put a gloss on what can only be described as a roller-coaster season. On the one hand, the Crimson lost squeakers to such perennial Ivy powers as Dartmouth (39-34) and Penn (27-20). On the other hand, Harvard was soundly trounced by such less-than-exceptional squads as Cornell (27-0) and Brown...
There is the Walking Dead category, people who seem to have been killed, then made over with rouge and lip gloss. Then there are the marginally luckier people who appear to have just returned from roasting under tanning lamps. Finally there are the hybrids, those who fall between categories, appearing both dead...
...rainy Friday afternoon in the New Jersey resort town of Stone Harbor, so an extended family of eight went to see The Fugitive. During the scary parts, Elizabeth, 85, clutched the hand of her daughter-in-law Mary, 48, who enjoyed the movie's gloss on a favorite old TV show. The cat-and-mouse interplay of hunter and haunted had Trish, 26, scraping the polish off her fingernails. Craig, 12, appreciated the cinematic ingenuity of the mise en scene. And everybody loved the train wreck. The whole family had a good time at the movies. Maybe they...