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Citizen Ruth and Sling Blade are directorial debuts with regional roots (Omaha, Nebraska, and Benton, Arkansas). And both feature star turns with a twist: Burt Reynolds as an Operation Rescue-style evangelist, John Ritter as a gay, discount-store manager. But these films have more serious novelties to offer. Citizen Ruth is, lo and behold, a political satire, and Sling Blade has the richness of a fine Southern Gothic novel...
...matter how you twist it, there is no denying the fact that the referendum regarding the Undergraduate Council budget will affect the ability of both the Student Affairs and the Campus Life committees of the council to do their jobs of serving students. The proposed referendum will yield the following break down of the council budget (which is composed of each student's $20 student activities termbill fee, usually around...
...second presidential debate, Dole's decision to concentrate on California during the past few weeks--are dismissed, not long afterward, as irrelevant. And the question never seems to arise: Why have you invested all those months chasing around the country after the candidates and chewing over every twist and turn in the saga if you're now going to declare that the election was decided by forces beyond even Dick Morris' control...
...chief obstacle is that the Democrats, no matter their number, will try to force Clinton to accept government by caucus: their leaders will loyally support the President's program and will twist arms on their side of the aisle to get enough votes to pass it. Just...
...John Le Carre's new novel, The Tailor of Panama [BOOKS, Oct. 28], is about a befuddled expatriate who, when recruited by a dubiously competent spy, makes up information that gets London's knickers in a twist. Is it possible that Le Carre has read Graham Greene's Our Man in Havana? Or could it be that I am just imagining a conspiracy? KIMBERLY CARSON Holderness, New Hampshire...