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...only those slacker flicks could capture Gen-X commitment fears with the precision and punch of this 60-sec. spot. Here, guy eyes girl in an elevator, and instantly their imaginations run wild toward dream dates, love dens and then, oh no!--a screaming newborn? When the doors open, lust shuts down...
...Flea Spare. In this year's festival of new plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Naomi Wallace's drama of life and lust during the 1665 London plague was the most ambitious, affecting, memorable. Wallace has a luxuriously poetic turn of mind and a gift for locating the heart of people on the brink of epiphany or despair...
...nascent Mama Kin club screams, drools, and bleeds for perverse, unrestrained if highly orchestrated debaucheries, preferably of Homo sapiens. Two domineering, heavily-stocked bars squat facing each other across the red-rimmed, black linoleum dance floor; smug, wood-carved janissaries. The room takes cares to invoke the popular equation "Lust + Delusion = a reckless, carnal kind of vermilion violence, real good stuff...
...resident--man, woman, child and pet--and waded, triumphantly, in the knee-deep blood. Nor have civilian women ever been entirely safe from their own "protectors." The subjects of Gilgamesh, the first warrior hero of recorded history, complained that "his arrogance has no bounds by day or night...His lust leaves no virgin to her lover...
Greed and lust for power by the political parties have deterred serious consideration of campaign-finance reform [NATION, Nov. 11]. It is time to stop the rhetoric and reduce the role of special-interest money in politics. Meaningful campaign reform will help mend our broken democracy; out-of-control money-power moves us closer to being a plutocracy. The most thoughtful and eloquent promoter of campaign-finance reform is retiring New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley. Come January 1997, one of the best things President Clinton could do would be to appoint Bradley to head a bipartisan commission to come...