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This is evidenced in the final intersection between the two overriding themes, love and death. In terms of plot, the crisis is fairly predictable, and takes the easy way out. However, it culminates in a weirdly erotic scene fusing death and sensuality with a frankness which may jar those who were expecting a different kind of erotic climax. Admittedly, it effectively forces Angelo to finally shake off the constraints of his pride--and the rigid code he has used as a shield against his own feelings. But the remainder of the movie seems to run out on itself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Horseman' Makes Love in the Time of Cholera | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

...main problem is that she does not want to take her clothes off, a scruple which is mocked by her agent and her acting teacher. Girl 6's life spirals downward as her numerous odd jobs as a movie extra, a club bartender, and a pamphlet distributor begin to jar her sensibilities. She finally gains a semblance of control in her life when she creates Lovely, her favorite phone sex persona...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lee's 'Girl' Has Gotta Have It | 4/4/1996 | See Source »

...addition to editing a new book. The Handbook of Social Psychology, Gilbert has written a number of non-scientific works, including. "In the Specimen Jar," a science fiction story for Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine...

Author: By Elizabeth T. Bangs and Nicholas K. Mitrokostas, S | Title: Three Scholars Awarded Tenure | 1/12/1996 | See Source »

...baby food: "It actually says not to feed the baby from the Gerber jar because it's 'unappetizing...

Author: By Mary W. Lu, | Title: Comedian Films Live HBO Special in Sanders | 10/24/1995 | See Source »

...enjoy its charm, its faux-naif artifice, its overwhelming campiness and its evocation of a period in the history of the American art world be tween the wars that now, at the sour close of the 20th century, seems remote and glittering, like something enclosed in a bell jar. This was the moment when New York, pupating into a modernist capital, contained all the other buzz-word News-new woman, new paganism, new verse, the New Negro and the New Republic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: CAMPING UNDER GLASS | 9/18/1995 | See Source »

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