Word: grahamism
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...back, the Detroit Zoo staff euthanatized a dying goat from the children's zoo and placed it in the African-swamp exhibit, which includes big vultures. Doing what came naturally, the vultures ate the goat. About half the zoogoers who happened upon the scene were fascinated, says director Steve Graham. But the other half averted their children's eyes and scurried away...
Many city liberals say that the upcoming election will play a critical role in shaping the future of Cambridge politics. Two long-time CCA councillors, Saundra Graham and David E. Sullivan, have announced that they plan to retire from the council after the current term expires, leaving the CCA locked in an uphill battle simply to retain its four-seat minority...
...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...
...humid with macho derring-do. In their world, romance is bruised but blooming; and the characters are so fully drawn that the moviegoer can become possessive of them, even judgmental, as he would with a friend. Would Sally have faked a fortissimo orgasm in a crowded restaurant? Would footloose Graham come back to Baton Rouge to find a love he lost nine years before? Of course they are not real people, and the difference is crucial in this talk-as-sex era. Real people talk back, act up, walk out. So let's leave the trend where it belongs: onscreen...