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...Middle East. 472 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 497-0576. Downstairs: Miracle Legion on Thursday, Nov. 4. Poster Children on Friday, Nov. 5. Monster Magnet on Saturday, Nov. 6. Mekons on Sunday, Nov. 7. Upstairs: Meices on Thursday, Nov. 4. Red Red Meet on Friday, Nov. 5. Tiger Trap on Saturday...
...Streetcar Named Desire is quite a different matter, as masterpieces always are. It's nice that four minutes, cut prior to its 1951 release in order to placate the then powerful Catholic Church's Legion of Decency, have been restored. But the important restoration is of a great film to contemporary consciousness. Indeed, comparing dimmed memories of the 1951 cut with this one, what strikes you is how resistant to censorship Tennessee Williams' work was. In the struggle between poetically yearning Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) and brutally realistic Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) for the soul of her sister...
...arguments against the dubious proposition that television violence is an important cause of real violence in America are legion, and fairly obvious. Somali children gleefully fire grenades at clan rivals, while Bosnians and Serbs rape and kill each other, all without encouragement from television. Homo homini lupus--"man is a wolf to man"--was Plautus' lament long before NYPD Blue...
...they had just strolled in from a Brian Friel play. Steeling herself for the unknown, Mahoney nervously checks out a lesbians-only night at a seedy Dublin bar. (Asked if she's gay, she lies and says yes.) She also attends a cell meeting of the fanatically Catholic Legion of Mary. Espied by the legionnaires as a potential recruit, she is asked to help out at a catechism class for a gaggle of foulmouthed, streetwise little hoydens, whose recitation of the Hail Mary sounds "taunting and lewd, like a jeering chant from an angry crowd at a football game." After...
With the new panel report, the American Legion seems likely to appeal the court's decision. "All of us who've fought this issue feel we've been vindicated," says Richard Christian, deputy director for research of the American Legion. What remains to be seen is just what the studies will show and who will be compensated...