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Absolutely, positively not to be missed is Wishman's transsexual mock-documentary, "Let Me Die a Woman." The film follows the patients of one Dr. Leo Wollman. A minister, a psychologist, a sex-therapist and a surgeon who looks like he could repair your 1972 Gremlin, Wollman reads his cue cards very well. A sad portrait of the third sex, the film asks, and attempts to answer, "What, who and why are transsexuals?" Wishman says that she "felt so sorry for these people" and "felt as if she had exploited them." But then quickly counters with the fact that...
...there are some experts who think the CIA is beyond repair. "The CIA should be shut down because its banner has too many cold war stains," says William Odom, a retired three-star Army general who ran the National Security Agency, the government's electronic eavesdropping arm, during the Reagan Administration. The Pentagon and State Department could perform most of its tasks, he says, and a new, truly secret unit could handle spy missions...
...Apollo program ended in 1972. The space shuttle proved fatally unreliable, and the proposed space station has been stuck on the drawing board for 10 years. With no vision to lift NASA, the agency is trapped in a downward spiral of mediocrity only slightly relieved by the brilliant repair of the Hubble telescope last winter. Administrator Daniel Goldin recently proposed a new mission: NASA should set a long-range goal of finding a habitable planet close to a nearby star. While this might have very long-term survival advantages for the human race, it seems unlikely to win the enthusiasm...
...future L.D.P. leader was not always popular among his classmates. One of them, Nikolai Salatov, recalls a student-court session in which two younger pupils were put on trial for stealing car parts from an automobile repair shop. Zhirinovsky acted as prosecutor, and even though such pilfering was common, he turned the proceedings into a show trial, delivering a shrill speech about the need to punish the boys. Enraged, his peers waited until after class and beat...
While there were plans at one point to just repair and touch up the existing interior surfaces, Buckley says now all the interiors are being replaced...