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...independent states to protect the rights of the Russian minorities there. Otherwise, Russia may take matters into its own heavy hands. If so, the world would surely suspend whatever help it is giving to any government in Moscow, which would only deepen the crisis in Russia and accelerate the vicious cycle of economic distress and political extremism...
This is a vicious circle par excellence and it must be broken by the new President and the two governing boards and with such outside help, whether loyal and knowledgeable alumni or others as they may decide to enlist. Furthermore, the fallacy of the self-serving argument that outside management is too expensive must be exposed for what it is--a red herring...
Swoon, another fable of a vicious, failed crime, renounces the garish naturalism of Reservoir Dogs. Swoon is artifice aspiring to art. So was the 1924 atrocity it portrays. When Nathan Leopold (Craig Chester) and Richard Loeb (Daniel Schlachet), two rich young homosexuals, murdered the child Bobby Franks, they were creating a portrait of themselves: powerful elitists, unsullied by the vulgarity of conscience. Director Kalin -- a comer -- is smart enough not to explain the murderers. Instead, in a chiaroscuro cinema style that suggests morgue photos taken by Cecil Beaton, he presents the pair as stars of their own camp pageant...
...conscious decision in casting Cohen, precisely because I believed she best fit the Lula of my vision of the play I wanted to put on. But Leland doesn't criticize me for a casting error, if she believes it to be such, but instead, launches into a fairly vicious personal attack on Cohen for not being a thirty year old "tall, slender, beautiful woman with long red hair hanging straight down her back..." as if Cohen had any control over her personal appearance and also as if her physical appearance had any direct correlation to her acting ability. Leland...
...another thing. The music industry can be vicious. If we retain the non-pop "10,000 Men," we'll avoid the wrath of Casey Kasem and the ever-fickle public tastes...