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Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. Three Warner Herzog documentaries on Thursday, Oct. 22. Herdsman of the Sun at 5:25 and 8 p.m. La Soufriere and The Great Ecstasy of the Sculptor Stiner at 4, 6:30 and 9:10 p.m. Boston area premiere of Ox from Friday, Oct. 23 to Thursday, Oct. 29 at 4, 5:50, 7:45 and 9:40 p.m. Also a Saturday and Sunday matinee...
...port. But things have picked up since then. Among the high points: Lynch himself in a hilarious cameo as Agent Cooper's half-deaf boss; Nadine, Big Ed's one-eyed wife, emerging from a coma with the mind of a 16- year-old and the strength of an ox; and one very spooky giant. Cut the hype, lower the expectations: Twin Peaks is not the second coming. But it is a damn fine TV show -- playful, unnerving and, despite all the mystical mumbo jumbo, more involving than any soap opera since the early days of Dallas...
...modern Missoula was," says museum director Wes Hardin. "The image of a wild and woolly Montana was not true. There were flush toilets, electricity and a horse-drawn streetcar system." One of the city's living relics is the Oxford, a rough-hewn downtown saloon known simply as "the Ox," whose claimed lineage variously dates back as far as 1883. Draft beer comes for 50 cents a pop; a woman barks off keno numbers over a loudspeaker. Gnarled poker devotees alternate five-card stud with games like Hold 'Em and Crazy Pineapple. Warns a stern sign: EACH PLAYER IS RESPONSIBLE...
...similar code were drawn up with right-wing imperatives in mind -- one banning unpatriotic, irreligious or sexually explicit expressions on campus -- the people framing Wisconsin-type rules would revert to their libertarian pasts. In this competition to suppress, is regard for freedom of expression just a matter of whose ox is getting gored at the moment? Does the left just get nervous about the Christian cross when Klansmen burn it, while the right will react only when Madonna flirts crucifixes between her thighs...
...knowing whose ox is going to be gored is making Congress uneasy, say House and Senate budget leaders. Until Bush announces his budget on February 9, members of Congress say they do not know from where the cuts will come...