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...only X-rated movie ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture, John Schlesinger's "Midnight Cowboy" enjoyed considerable success despite its straightforward depiction of prostitution and homosexuality. The use of nudity and profanity, though shocking then, allows a frank portrayal of the seamier sides of city life as encountered by the story's protagonist, country boy Joe Buck (Jon Voight) looking to settle down with a rich city woman. Particularly offensive at the time were two scenes between Voight's character and homosexual johns, including a middle-aged man whom he physically assaults. But the most striking aspect...
...same response every year, the kind you'd expect on a very liberal campus," he said. "The posters are straightforward and mean that the way you can get AIDS is by homosexual sex, especially unprotected homosexual sex." Current AALARM President Randy A. Karger '96 declined to comment...
...diffuseness of Riggs' work is not merely a reflection of subject matter, but also of a varied and erratic style. In addition to his straightforward, "talking-heads" style interviews with such luminaries as Angela Davis and Cornel West, Riggs also includes blurred and shaky MTV-style cuts, slow-motion ghetto shots and short sections of poetry and dance meant to express his own feelings on the subject matter. Dragging and distracting, the attempts at innovation merely seem scattershot and amateurish for this accomplished filmmaker...
...times Riggs manages to capture voices and stories that add insights into black identity in compelling and straightforward ways. However, it is frustrating that these successes are drowned out by cinematic special effects and an overload of other voices and issues...
...right turn for unconscious reasons, and so it was with Copley. The "liny" style of his "little way in Boston" turned out, in the end, not to be a provincial flaw. Rather, it proved the very basis of his best achievement as a painter. It produced the hard, unfussed, straightforward realism of his portraits, which make up a unique record of the men and women who formed America from the top in the late 18th century...