Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want him to touch me." They haven't had sex for a while. At least Ann hasn't; John is pursuing an affair with her lubricious sister Cynthia (Laura San Giacomo). Curiosity is about the only thing that can be aroused in gentle Ann, and when John's chum Graham (James Spader) visits, she and he swap secrets. Hers: "I think that sex is overrated." His: "I'm impotent." They could be a couple for the '90s: the first postsexual lovers...
...describe the plot -- in which we learn that Graham can reach sexual climax only while watching videotapes he has made of women's carnal confessions -- is to make sex, lies sound like a smirking stag reel. But this is not an "adult film" in the X-rated sense; it is an adult film, "patient and subtle," in its creator's apt words. It is about men who use women by watching them, and women tired of being the object of satyric attention. What amazes is that at just 26, Soderbergh displays the three qualities associated with mature filmmakers: a unique...
...article in Tuesday's Crimson mistakenly quoted Kennedy School spokesperson Steven R. Singer as saying that the school had a specific individual in mind for the newly endowed Graham T. Allison chair. Singer actually was referring to a yet-unfilled chair endowed by a grant from Malcolm Weiner '57 announced earlier this summer...
...LIFE OF GRAHAM GREENE, VOL. 1: 1904-1939 by Norman Sherry (Viking; $29.95). Greene may be the most elusive big fish still swimming in the shrinking pond of English letters, but this fascinating, obsessively detailed biography hooks him solidly. Hardly a question about the author goes unanswered, and Greene's best years, those of The Power and the Glory and The End of the Affair, are yet to come...
...have been waiting 40 years to learn the name of the obscure Mexican clerk who was the model for the Judas figure in The Power and the Glory, or if you lie awake wondering who originally owned the revolver that Graham Greene used when he played Russian roulette in 1923, this is the book...