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Mann shows us both the long-term effect of these forces upon the movies--the infamous Hays morality code, which constrained the movies to representing a rigidly defined value system whose iron grip did not begin to loosen until the 1960s and '70s--and the very personal impact upon the actors in Hollywood. The studios declared that being gay was no longer okay in Hollywood, thereby avoiding the harsh criticism of the Roman Catholic Church and other religious groups, and providing spin control on the gossip newspapers that were rapidly taking on an alarming independence. Actors who were rumored...
...elements of a short story: "character, language, situation, structure, plot." He does not add "drugs, booze, angry sex, bar fighting, class resentment, familial dysfunction." The kids will learn to chord this country music on their own. Or not. Now they seem shy and tentative. The professor tries to loosen them up: "A good writer steals from other writers," he says. "Got to be willing to steal, to pillage." Got to be willing, Russell Banks might say to himself, to be merely very good in novel after novel while critics use words like talented and valuable and consign...
...seems to have taken a form of divine intervention for the U.S. to loosen its embargo against Cuba just a tiny bit. To help POPE JOHN PAUL II's visit there next month, Washington will allow a cruise ship, some church supplies and as many as 10 chartered airline flights to take pilgrims from Miami to Havana. Might this be the start of a thaw? Well, one U.S. official noted that FIDEL CASTRO "is saying things he never said before," including asking a group of Protestants to pray for his country. National Security Adviser SANDY BERGER explained it this...
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...Gore is coming to the biggest political contest of all in an era that loves talk-show confessionals--a time when even the British royals are expected to loosen up or lose their jobs. Gore, in fact, has a lot of Prince Charles in him, a vestige of the style of upper Cumberland, Tenn., "that emphasizes formalism in public presentation," he told TIME last week. "I think I absorbed that, but I'm slowly learning how to transcend it." Until that happens, Gore's famous stiffness and failure to grasp the trick of compelling self-presentation are no small problem...