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...been a favorite at international film festivals, garnering Best Actor for Thompson at the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards, and best screenplay in Montreal, among others. It is funny and wonderfully intriguing, confronting issues which people face every day, but that are seldom tackled by the American film industry. As director Kevin Dowling said, "The Sum of Us" celebrates the knowledge that "whether straight or gay, familial or romantic, love is love...
...Cold revolutionized espionage fiction-and he has done so with none of the typical thriller trappings. Evil geniuses do not hold the world hostage in his books; violence takes place off-page; and if there is sex, it is wistful rather than graphic, tinged with the foreknowledge that pleasure seldom lasts...
...Because AFDC benefits have always been low, welfare mothers look like the neediest of the needy. As a result, liberals have fought hard to help welfare recipients, while largely ignoring single mothers with low wage jobs. Welfare recipients have always gotten Medicaid for example while equally impoverished working mothers seldom have...
...Kitaj differs from both, for he wanted to paint his images all the way through, not transfer them out of mass media. It's odd that in the midst of all the talk about "appropriation" that went on through the '80s and into the '90s, Kitaj's name so seldom came up in New York: for this is a painter mad about quotation, about scouring the landfill of 20th century image-memory for fragments that could work as emblems and poetic signs...
...Curve controversy. "My own sense is that the biology has never been good enough, never subtle enough, to deal with those social differentials," Mendelsohn explains. "It is a kind of urge to say you can do nothing about it; it is locked into the laws of nature. Beware, for seldom has that been that case. Biological determinism has its allure--it simplifies, but even though it has its allure, again and again it has been shown to be inadequate." According to Mendelsohn, scientists' tremendous advances in understanding the human animal often lull them into the false belief that they...