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...contrast, the Bush-Quayle campaign, from the ill-starred G.O.P. Convention onward, regularly anathematized a host of Others: the nefarious "cultural elite"; the make-work lawyers in their tasseled loafers; the outlaw poor, who rioted in L.A.; the "nuclear-freeze crowd"; tree-hugging environmentalists; homosexuals and those perpetuating "alternative life- styles" as morally equivalent; the godless who, Bush reminded us, forget to put the three letters G-O-D in their party platform. Most of all, it went after liberals, especially those who pretended to be something else. The Republican campaign had spawned more demons than you could shake...
...BOTTOM LINE: When young directors choose a hero for their first films, the outlaw...
...keep on shooting. Blam! Blam! In this year's heralded crop of low-budget films from tyro directors, the outlaw is in. Quentin Tarantino's Reservoir Dogs: gangsters pull a heist, then engage in a long therapy session of bitchery and carnage. Tom Kalin's Swoon: those gay cutups of the '20s, Leopold and Loeb, are back, artier and hornier than ever. Stacy Cochran's My New Gun: doctor gives his restless wife a handgun; audience waits for it to go off. Add two other, more seasoned directors of outlaw movies -- Abel Ferrara (Bad Lieutenant) and Hal Hartley (Simple...
...eight-month separation, was typical Marley: seductive, soulful and coolly intemperate. The rhythm is easy but the lyrics insinuate, cajole, insist: sexual congress as hip sacrament. It was Marley's unbridled and unapologetic partaking of this and other devotions, in fact, that gave him a kind of enigmatic, outlaw cast. In Jamaica he was not only a star, he was a political hero, a status that was confirmed by a medal from the U.N. and by the Jamaican Order of Merit, which he received in 1981. But long before that, back in 1966, his wife Rita had had a vision...
Brown University, for example, updated their speech code to outlaw "intimidating speech" rather than "demeaning speech." It's unclear what that change represents...