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...abortion simply because of the child's sexual orientation. He sees his own life being "rubbed out" along with the fetus. Suzanne, in turn, resents David's intrusion into what she considers to be a very private affair. The senior Golds. Walter (Stephen Epstein) and Phyllis (Sarah Pollen) tread lightly around the situation. They want to respect their daughter's privacy and final decision, but they also want David clued-in to what is going on in the family. The last thing they want as precisely what they get: a blowout where Walter basically admits to his won that...
...president of Harvard University clasping hands with a terrorist such as Yasser Arafat presented so jarring an image that it could not go without being noted. To imagine that a murderer has been allowed the privilege of addressing an audience at this proud institution and to tread upon ground hallowed by the footsteps of heroes, is surely enough to send chills down the spine of every decent member of our community...
Equally controversial, but for its violence, "Natural Born Killers" perhaps best demonstrates the thin line that filmmakers tread in trying to "send a message." Although director Oliver Stone obviously seeks to lay bare the media-crazy, hyped-up, and knocked-down society we live in, we begin to question his methods when his satire goes too far. With alarmingly fast-paced cuts, murders flicker by in the blink of an eye, only to disturb, perhaps deeply, just moments later. The cry of "That's the point!" can only go so far in defending movies that, in truth, are pounding...
...scene from Psycho is a grisly shudder in the collective unconscious, as bracing as Janet Leigh's famous shower and possibly even more shocking. The detective, played by Martin Balsam, is climbing the stairway of Norman Bates' creepy old house, his cautious tread accompanied by a few high-pitched notes in the violins, pregnant with mystery and menace. As he reaches the landing, a door flies open in a glint of flashing steel: suddenly the strings shriek rhythmically, as the knife blade slashes down and the stricken cop topples backward to his death in a symphony of pizzicato cellos...
...President must tread carefully. While Zedillo's own distance from the political Old Guard makes it easier for him to reform the system, many Mexicans wonder if he is too naive to understand the risks involved in taking on the men in the shadows. Colosio and Ruiz Massieu may have been killed, after all, simply for threatening to reduce the power of the mighty. Zedillo has already gone beyond that by threatening to punish the mighty...