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Blazing Carrots, 4, 5:30, 7, 8:30, 10 p.m., tonight; Anais Nin Observed, 4, 7:15, 10:30, The Henry Miller Odyssey...
...Long Odyssey. He is doing just that. In March, Matlovich, a race-relations instructor at Virginia's Langley Air Force Base, wrote his commanding officer: "I have arrived at the conclusion that my sexual preferences are homosexual, as opposed to heterosexual." The Air Force began moving to give Matlovich a general-less than honorable -discharge. But Matlovich has fought the customary procedures by demanding that a three-officer board review his case, and says that he will take his fight to the Supreme Court if necessary...
Matlovich's act was the culmination of a long personal odyssey. The son of a career Air Force sergeant, Matlovich grew up on military bases in such places as Charleston, S.C., Alaska and Guam. In 1963, after graduating from high school in England, he joined the Air Force. "I knew I was homosexual then," he says. "I had been since I was in the seventh grade...
...from the outset that Pages wasn't working. Realizing it only contained tidbits of his life and occasional references to A Fan's Notes and with the debts still looming overhead. Exley banished the 480 pages of typescript to the back of his rusting Chevy and began a personal odyssey in search of material. But the people he meets are tedious, and by this time his reflections have become predictable. If anything, Exley seems too detached, to the point of being callous...
w001: A Space Odyssey, Friday and Saturday...