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THESE THREE money-making films are all preoccupied with being up to date. Their self-conscious and facetious timeliness emphasizes the latest strategy of commercial cinema: the presentation of a debonair, or at least charming, independent as the modern woman, followed by a gradual undermining of her independence. These films free their female leads from a few minor prejudices only to shove them back into still deeper caves of male domination...
...cases, they found themselves in rare and unanimous agreement on one point: the procedures then in effect for handling the problem were a hopeless failure. Thus they concluded that the entire legal definition of obscenity had to be reexamined. Justice William Brennan, chief architect of the court's gradual course toward liberalization, argued urgently that virtually all pornography bans should be scrapped as constitutionally unworkable. With no less force, Chief Justice Warren Burger spoke in favor of stricter standards, "more concrete than those in the past." Last week, in a decision that could drastically clamp down...
Atherosclerosis, a form of arteriosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, is a major cause of the heart disease that claims more than 1,000,000 American lives each year. Most doctors believe that fats like cholesterol are primarily responsible for the gradual arterial buildup of the hard, fibrous deposits that characterize the condition. A University of Washington pathologist offers a startlingly different explanation. Relegating cholesterol to a secondary role in heart disease, Dr. Earl Benditt suggests that atherosclerotic deposits, or plaques, may be derived from a single abnormal cell that multiplies into tumor-like growths...
...being shown at the Fogg, which includes a number of French late nineteenth century works of astonishing quality. All are carefully chosen, from the Van Gogh self-portrait with its bright green background burning through at the subject's eyes to a Matisse bowl of geraniums that illustrates the gradual way the twentieth century grew out of the advances of the eighties and nineties. There is not a weak or ordinary picture in the group and, together in one room, they provide an excellent area for cross-comparison...
Poulin's presence, though confusing at times, helps create the structure of gradual progression from distant to intensified identification with the film. It is this structure which makes My Uncle Antoine more expressive of its characters' lives and feelings than most other films about adolescence...