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...most Senators feel that it will only reinforce existing opinions. The proposal may not make it out of committee in the Democratic-controlled House, and if it does, it is unlikely to win the two-thirds support needed for passage there. Helms is once again pushing for his own peculiar remedy, a bill that would strip the courts of power to rule on the abortion issue. But it will probably be filibustered in the Senate, spurned in the House and, in the improbable event that it passes, be struck down by the courts...
There have been signs in recent weeks that tolerance for Jaruzelski's peculiar mix of Communism and Polish nationalism may be wearing thin in Moscow. The Soviet weekly New Times, for example, took some uncomradely potshots at Polityka, a moderate Polish weekly that is thought to represent the views of some members of Jaruzelski's inner circle. The Moscow publication bluntly stated that Polityka, and by implication the Jaruzelski regime, had lost its bearings and seemed intent on making Poland "a land of pluralism." That message has not been lost on the hard-liners in Poland...
Some of the play is unabashedly autobiographical. Like Arnold, Fierstein grew up in a lower-middle-class area of Brooklyn. "No one says he had a normal, happy childhood, and I guess mine was as peculiar as anyone else's. I was a fat kid and grew up like an average fat kid. It's never easy, but it isn't the hardest thing in the world, either." He told his parents he was gay when he was 13, and the discovery was not particularly traumatic. "There was no crying or screaming in my presence," he recalls...
...bassist also advises watching for a band called Final Cause in the fall, citing the group's "very peculiar technology." The places to look, she adds, tend to be Leverett. Adams and Quincy Houses...
...cooked, television often seems to consist of leftovers. Never more so than in the past few weeks, when a persistent recipe served up by the networks has been television about television. After more than 30 years, it appears, television has discovered that it, too, has a "usable past," a peculiar history that can be exploited in every sense of the word...