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...play proceeds, the two men engage in a series of debates, each one defending his way of dealing with a racist Hollywood. But by the final scene, when Bradley and Vincent meet up again at a similar party, they have reversed their initial positions; Bradley has had a nose-job and is playing a lucrative but demeaning role in a big-budget film, while Vincent is about to make an independent documentary about a Japanese family during World War II. As if to emphasize his enlightenment, Gotanda even has Vincent come out in the play's last scene, adding sexual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sluggish 'Dawg' | 3/14/1996 | See Source »

This juxtaposition prompts a number of related observations. One: even as it promised reform, the television industry was up to its old tricks, pumping out sleaze right under the President's nose (in a sort of postmodern, electronic sense). Two: Montel's show could be read as an inadvertent discourse on the differing tastes and points of view that will make a coherent ratings system for TV so maddeningly difficult to implement. And three: this writer was looking for a way to watch TV and call it work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spectator: IN SEARCH OF SLEAZE | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...business community," she says. "This time he was back in fatigues." Fatigue is one word recent observers have pinned on the 69-year-old Castro, but last week, Booth says, "he looked fully invigorated by the crisis." So was Booth, like any reporter with a smart nose for a hot story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHIND THE SCENES | 3/11/1996 | See Source »

...despair too much about randomization. Sure, the Quad is far, but when you have the shuttle of all shuttles to carry you light as air from place to place, what does it really matter? Just step on in, relax in the climate-controlled interior and thumb your nose at river people as you glide...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IT'S A BIRD, IT'S A PLANE... | 3/9/1996 | See Source »

There were no pictures of aborted fetuses hacked to pieces and floating in a sea of blood. The most vivid photo was a color ultrasound of a 16-week-old child resting in her mother's womb. Her eyes, nose, mouth and hands were perfectly formed. She was sucking her thumb in innocent comfort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Alliance Holds Moral Ground | 3/6/1996 | See Source »

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