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CONGRATULATIONS AND THANKS FOR Robert Hughes' extraordinary story on the vicious, mindless congressional attempts to do in the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting [COVER STORY, Aug. 7]. Hughes marshals the arguments with rare pellucidity and a cool passion that cuts like a laser. There's a wonderful line in John Guare's Six Degrees of Separation when Ouisa says to Paul, who has lost the only copy of his graduation thesis to a mugger, "I hope your mugger reads every word [of it]." I hope the muggers...
...Americans who first struggled for the right to train as pilots, then for the right to fly in combat, is one of the saddest lapses in U.S. military history--an important saga missing from most textbooks. Now after decades of struggle, the story of the Tuskegee airmen, and the vicious racism they overcame to become war heroes, will finally reach a wide audience. Starting on Aug. 26, with additional play dates over the following few weeks, HBO will broadcast a TV drama based on the adventures of the all-black 99th Fighter Squadron, which first went into combat in April...
...Reservoir Dogs, but with less hysteria and a more intricate plot. For its quintet of thieves lusting for the big score, The Usual Suspects convenes five scarred souls, including a chatty gimp (Spacey) and an anguished antihero (Byrne). In California on a quick job, they run up against a vicious, unseen ganglord named Keyser Soze-a name that has the smolder of Satan in it. One by one, the thieves...
Dole is not too old to be president; he is too mean. He does not have the breadth of vision the job requires. He has spent his entire Senate career as an insider. And during that time he has gained a reputation for having the most vicious wit in the Senate. Old dogs can't learn new tricks, the saying goes; old Senators can't either. JOHN J. DUIGNAN Rosedale, New York...
...baths a luxury, the locals can afford only to dream. That, at least, is the route taken by young Stella (Georgina Cates, in an affecting star debut), who joins the troupe and falls in love with its dashing director (Grant). For Stella he's just the wrong person: homosexual, vicious, smooth as snake oil. Grant here is wonderfully assured, residing inside this rotter as if he'd been waiting to play the role all his life. It's one of the good things to say about the actor: in big parts or small, he just wants...