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...Otello. The director's brilliant conceit was to film this tale of the ebony Moor and his blond bride in images of stark chiaroscuro, the blackest black and the whitest white. No moral or visual gray tones here. Dark cloaked figures rush toward the Grand Canal, and pigeons scatter up into an angry sky. The spider-webbery of shadows casts doom across an innocent face. It is a canvas, of baroque silhouettes and diagonals rampant, that marries text to texture in vintage film-noir style. Othello: the postwar man who feels betrayed by his wife. Desdemona: the innocent woman brutalized...
...defense already employed by various well-heeled felons that "the '80s made me do it." It was in the '80s, after all, that the rich got richer, and the poor took to camping out on concrete. Class became harder to ignore than those block-long stretch limos that scatter the common folk as they cruise down the streets...
From now on, most of Clinton's opponents can be expected to take dead aim at him, rather than scatter their fire against one another. And as he comes under close scrutiny for the first time outside Arkansas, Clinton may well be vulnerable on a variety of issues. One of them is his penchant for offering what sounds like detailed programs that on examination sometimes turn out to be distressingly vague. Nebraska Senator Robert Kerrey has already assailed the imprecision of Clinton's stand on health care, which is emerging as one of the hottest issues of the campaign...
...Dreesmans, as for most farm families whose children scatter, the Christmas holidays meant a time of reunion. So it was that on Dec. 30, 1987, Agnes Dreesman, a superb cook and flower arranger who frequently contributed culinary and horticultural creations to church and garden-club benefits, readied their house for a celebration. Marilyn, widowed in 1984, had flown in from Honolulu with the three grandchildren. Robert too would be home for dinner...
...powers that be at MTV have always leapt at the opportunity to scatter Madonna's megapopular videos all over the airwaves. But the Material Girl's "Justify My Love" rubbed them the wrong...