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...political machinery so deftly that he looked as if he'd been doing this all his life, to find himself in radar lock from Stealth fighters launched by his own party to bring him down. This time it wasn't just the attack ads on TV or the sight of "neutral" Newt Gingrich describing a central element of the Forbes flat-tax plan as "nonsense." Forbes saw something more sinister at work, which made him mad enough to improvise in mid-script. "The dinosaurs," he told TIME, "are closing ranks." The other campaigns, he charged last Friday, "are making anonymous...
...variations on an old theme often produce surprising results. Depending on the quality of the original idea, a remake can be a welcome sight to modern audiences. Alexander Chirkov's "Genesis of Genesis" attempts to accomplish this with the Biblical story of Genesis. The play is a series of episodes from the first 22 chapters of Genesis, including all the most famous: the Creation, the murder of Abel, the Flood and Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac...
...perhaps this very difficulty in processing the real world with any semblance of understanding that defines Travis's state: he cannot perceive reality beyond a basic conflict between a common man/hero in the evil world he must inhabit. Accordingly, the sight of a thirteen-year-old prostitute (Jodie Foster) fascinates him, epitomizing the destructive influence of the "scum of the streets." Later, her detestable pimp (Harvey Keitel) will be the first to face his vision of justice...
Dear old Saint Valentine hardly has a romantic story. He spent his working days as a pagan priest and physician in ancient Rome until he was thrown in jail for protecting persecuted Christians. While in jail, Valentine converted to Christianity and restored sight to the jailer's daughter. Then they clubbed him to death, which when you think about it, was a relatively painless way to achieve martyrdom in those days. It sure beat the lions...
...virus no longer prevents one from living an active life. Medical science has made steady progress in the 15 years since AIDS appeared in the U.S.--most dramatically in treating the devastating secondary infections in the later stages. There is still no cure, and a vaccine is nowhere in sight, but hardly a week goes by without some advance on the AIDS front...