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CAMBRIDGE—I wasn’t there, across the Charles, when the yearly Gay Pride Parade descended on Boston on June 15. I was here in Cambridge—queer, but sleeping...
...Icelandic delegation. "It's very clear that conservation is part of it, but conservation is there to ensure the continuation of whaling. It's a means to an end." Like so many environmental battlegrounds, the fight over whales is an endless tangle of emotive issues wrapped up with national pride, cultural values and economic interests. And the IWC has been so fiercely and evenly divided that for decades, stasis has been the rule. The battle has been raging at least since 1986, when an IWC moratorium on commercial whaling took effect. It was intended to allow recovery and assessment...
...2F2F Singleton makes some nifty use of computer-generated (CG) wizardry, as when the camera zips at Mach speed through the workings of a chromed-up engine. But he insists on the visual veracity of real stuntmen putting their pride and lives on the line. "You want to keep a sense of danger," he says. "If you don't have that, there's no point in doing it." Director F. Gary Gray, whose Italian Job is an update of a 1969 caper, says he strove for "a retro, fresh approach. I wanted to be able to communicate the danger...
...This says, 'You're not welcome.'" DAVID SMITH, spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign, on the Justice Department's decision to bar employees from holding an annual gay-pride event at department headquarters...
...films could not. The Wachowski-written Second Renaissance, Parts 1 and 2, mini-epics in their own right, describe how man began the war with machines and how the Matrix came into being (in the usual dystopic, postapocalyptic anim? tradition, man is hoisted by the petard of his own pride). The taut Program is set in a simulacrum of feudal Japan; Detective Story somehow turns the Wachowskis' vision into film noir, complete with fog, fedoras?and Trinity in (what else?) tight, black leather...