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Questions of real differences between the sexes show up only in stark, untheoretical matters like votes against the Equal Rights Amendment and inequality of promotion in the workplace. But subtle suggestions, tiny drops of water on stone, can go some ways toward modifying even the most stubbornly held and wordless assumptions; and the British may be helping matters as they dryly take for granted that, whatever it is that a Lord Mayor does Mary Donaldson...
...suggests that all the mysteries of existence do not bubble up only in laboratories. One reason the martial-law government of Poland so fears the Pope's influence in that country is that he reaches feelings in the people no government can come close to. For all the stark, monstrous visible evidence of our times, the mind still retains a shrine for invisibilities. One can never comprehend a place like Iran without acknowledging as much, although Iran has also proved that faith unleashed may act no more gently than other executioners...
...moviegoers who are not shocked, titillated, disgusted, fascinated, delighted or angered by this early scene in Bernardo Bertolucci's new movie, Last Tango in Paris, should be patient. There is more to come. Much more. Bertolucci has marshaled his opulent visual style to tell a stark story of sex as a be-all and end-all. For boldness and brutality, the intimate scenes are unprecedented in feature films. Frontal nudity, four-letter words, masturbation, even sodomy-Bertolucci dwells uncompromisingly on them...
...spiritually important to recent generations because the book cooperated perfectly with this age's picture of the future. Besides 1984, the two main Utopian-indeed, antiutopian-texts of the time have been Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. They stand in stark contrast to the visions of past ages: Plato's Republic, Augustine's City of God, Dante's Paradise, More's Utopia, Rousseau, Kant, Marx and the American Dream, which saw the millennium in everything new. No longer. Our antiutopian visions do not presume new discoveries...
Warned Eli Bergman, executive director of Americans for Energy Independence, a public interest group: "We simply do not have an emergency preparedness system. Today's stark reality is that if an emergency occurred tomorrow, there would be chaos." - By Kenneth M. Pierce. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington, with other bureaus