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...surprising that biographer Patricia Morrisroe wanted to write about Mapplethorpe. He managed to capture America's consciousness quite a bit longer than the usual fifteen minutes allotted the average pop-art rebel. For a man whose work seemed hopelessly mired in subculture, Mapplethorpe bridged a lot of cultural gaps. His most recent incarnation as a kind of Ansel Adams for the East Village set well served the artist's quest for superstardom. Familiarity may breed contempt, but it also tends to breed, well, familiarity. The socially acceptable Mapplethorpe, particularly his sedate though well-rendered floral photographs, is still cropping...
Last month, during an emotional executive meeting held by NOW's national board at which Bruce was not present, the members voted almost unanimously to censure Bruce for what president Patricia Ireland called "racially insensitive comments." This week, in a move NOW veterans say is unprecedented in the organization's 30-year history, a hearing will be held by a grievance committee of California NOW in Fresno to strip Bruce of her NOW membership. "We've worked very hard to overcome the stereotype that we are a white, middle-class organization," says NOW executive vice president Kim Gandy, speaking...
...VENERABLE TRADITION AND not-so-arcane formula, the first three thrillers from the top of the new year's pop-trash pile constitute a trend. Last year's trend was hard-boiled women detectives, by such hard-boiled women writers as Carol O'Connell (Mallory's Oracle) and Patricia Cornwell (The Body Farm). The new trend is, let's see (flip, flip), hard-boiled women, right, but (flip, flip) written by soft-to-medium-boiled...
...made everything beautiful. If there's an answer to why so perfect a union should be ended, it will take a wiser mind than mine to make sense of it. If Katia decides to skate solo, wonderful; we don't want to lose her. Solo yes, but never alone. PATRICIA LAUNDERS Sherman Oaks, California...
Other officials, however, have distanced themselves from the crime. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says the city cannot act as a censor for all movies shot there--157 last year, bringing in about $1.75 billion to the city. Commissioner Patricia Reed Scott, of the Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre and Broadcasting, asserts, "Our interest in reading the scripts is purely logistical ... Even if the attackers did see the movie, they are still responsible for what they...