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Often it is not the act itself but the denial, the coverup, that wrecks a reputation. A suspicion will always linger that if Nixon and his men had not tried to cover up, his presidency would have survived; if only he had got up and confessed some thing. If only he had made what the Catholic Church calls a sincere act of contrition. It was not so much John Profumo's recreation with Christine Keeler that finished him as Britain's State Secretary for War. It was the way he lied about...
...Kazem Ala, the physical suffering has faded. Of course, the memory of his arrest in 1979 for participating in an anti-Shah demonstration in the streets of Teheran and his subsequent torture at the hands of the Shah's secret police must linger in his mind. But for Kazem, the legacy of physical scars is dwarfed by the uneasy truth that, for the most part, his fourteen months of suffering in the bowels of an Iranian jail may have been meaningless. For though he was--and continues to be--a dedicated opponent of political oppression in Iran, the very oppression...
...finally begins to long for a firmer narrative, some truly dramatic conclusions to the scenes. Even so, a fresh spirit is moving in Atlantic City, something unbeholden to other movies. That and the pleasures its performers offer make it catch in the mind, where, one suspects, it may linger a while. -By Richard Schickel
DEPICTION OF homosexuality has always had a subtle power that both offends and appeals to us. The etiquette of today's moral liberalism forbids any judgements against gays and lesbians, but prejudice and fear linger. These doubts are more than relies from a barbaric and intolerant past, but the expression of an all-too-real hostility among the majority of people who cannot help but see homosexual love as aberrent behavior. Still, there is an attraction to homosexuality--most who share in it would call it perverse, while admitting to it nonetheless--the thought of what the other way must...
...crowd any thought of homosexuality out of their heads. That creates another source of hostility to gays: ignorance. Shutting homosexuality out of our world fosters the same fear and mistrust of the alien that has always led people to hate each other. Our prejudice against gay people will linger as long as they are unfamiliar. Only free interaction with them will show us that they are people just like ourselves...