Word: realm
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...film. Those old friends swaggering past Umbertos Clam House have been alchemized into tragicomic De Niros. And -- let's have a happy ending for one Scorsese picture -- the little lad from the mean streets has scaled the heights. Not just to a luxe Manhattan aerie but into the realm where almost no contemporary filmmaker can touch him. Made it, Ma, top of the world...
Academic freedom is academic freedom. It is the unmitigated right of tenured academics to say and publish whatever they want--including what others may regard as worthless or virulent. And universities--because of their special relationship with the realm of knowledge--must be particularly wary of excluding ideas of any kind...
...Defamation League, a national monitor of hate groups, disclosed that Prodigy boards are being used to promote anti-Semitic propaganda. Messages have appeared contending, among other things, that the murder of millions during the Holocaust is "fantasy and exaggeration." Prodigy argues that such comments, however distasteful, fall within the realm of free expression. Even so, the company last week announced a restriction against "blatant expressions of bigotry" and will be meeting with the A.D.L. to discuss its complaints...
...noxious taint last week when former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke began battling roguish ex-Governor Edwin Edwards for the keys to the executive mansion. The campaign threatens to bare the cantankerous soul of a state that is often derided as America's banana republic, a Third World realm of corrupt and crazy politicians, wild parties and bizarre customs. Yet even Louisiana has never seen anything this weird. Says John Maginnis, publisher of the Louisiana Political Review: "We're in a new dimension of time and space. We're in the twilight zone." Sadly, this excursion may well cost...
...that the Holy Grail was really in Japan? American theater artist Robert Wilson seems to think so. For the Zurich Opera, Wilson has conjured up a LOHENGRIN that is far removed from Wagner's realm of Brabant. The composer's scenario is full of feudal warfare and knightly swordplay. But Wilson, whose career has included such mesmerizing efforts as Einstein on the Beach and the CIVIL warS, avoids conventional stage action, particularly the use of arms and hands. So this is a slo-mo Lohengrin with formalized gestures that recall tai chi. In place of the banks of the River...