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...Twist and Shout...
...elder sibling whose departure from home left the first big hole in a child's heart (Only a Dream), or the appeal of North Carolina's rural landscape seen as "a blur from the driver's side" (I Am a Town). Even her least typical hit -- Down at the Twist and Shout, the Cajun-ragin' Grammy winner from her 1990 album, Shooting Straight in the Dark -- is a tribute to a place that no longer exists (a dance hall in Bethesda, Maryland). The new album's title tune sounds like a come-on to a quick affair until you listen...
Lately, however, bisexuality has been hard to overlook. Bisexual characters are the newest twist in movies and TV shows, most notably Basic Instinct and L.A. Law. PBS recently broadcast a drama based on the lives of writers Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicolson, both bisexuals. Authors Camille Paglia and the late John Cheever have confessed their sexual duality; recent biographies claim that Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant and Eleanor Roosevelt had affairs with both men and women...
...comedy series, The Larry Sanders Show. GARRY SHANDLING, a former Tonight guest host, plays the host of a Tonight-style talk show. Each episode begins with Larry's opening monologue, which sounds just like Garry's real monologues, and brings on real-world guests like Carol Burnett. The twist is that we get to peek behind the scenes, where all is phoniness and petty bickering. It's show- biz satire of the dryest, most in-jokish sort but undeniably funny. Shandling and a guest try to schmooze as the closing credits roll. "Just pretend like you're talking...
...guns of this particular August are loaded and trained, there is an extra twist for the President. He must make his command decisions in the midst of a re-election campaign. Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton is free to discuss, as he did last week, the use of military force "against the Serbs to try to restore the basic conditions of humanity." Yet if Bush orders the armed forces into action, he will be accused of using them cynically to rally the nation behind him. Discontented American voters, demanding first priority for domestic problems, will search suspiciously for political motives...