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...this is news. Truth or Dare offers an ace manipulator's self-portrait, unmediated by interviewers or pundits. Raw, raunchy and epically entertaining, this is pure, adulterated Madonna. Giving her all to simulated masturbation in the Like a Virgin number. Blithely stripping for the camera. Calling Beatty a wimp (more or less) because he is sensibly shy of her camera. Recalling some erotic nurse play with a childhood girlfriend. Gagging when Kevin Costner says her show was "neat." Consummating an intimate relationship with a bottle of Vichy water. Two hours of dishing and dissing in relentless, bathroom-mirror closeup...
There's a special flavor to music heard live in clubs: more relaxed than on records -- often fiercer too, with inhibiting mikes out of the performers' way. The first releases from Night Records, a new Virgin Records label specializing in live performances, catch four jazz stylists (Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Les McCann, Eddie Harris and Cannonball Adderley) in moods that seldom found their way onto more formal recordings. Kirk, best known for his atonal virtuosity in blowing three saxes at once, plays clarinet with a traditional New Orleans band in a sly, down-home version of The Black and Crazy Blues...
...such fragmentation of images was built into the culture of France or Germany in the 1920s. The relations between image and thing seemed solid. Here was something to overturn, and collage was the lever. Ernst fell on the common vein of reproductory images like a miner discovering a virgin reef...
...April 1975: the last U.S. helicopter to leave hovers just above the embassy in Saigon, its rotors whirring and its engine aroar, while behind a barred gate a throng of dependents, informers, helpers and hangers-on howl to be rescued. Among them is the title character, Kim, a peasant virgin turned bar girl turned soldier's wife-to-be, forlornly waving the now useless paper that says she is entitled to join the soldier far away. That moment shapes Kim's life and drives the story toward its tragic reunion. When at last she sees the father of her toddler...
...after country, proposed action plans stressed such projects as the opening of previously pristine forests for exploitation. Noting that Cameroon could become the "most important African producer and exporter of forestry-based products from the start of the 21st century," T.F.A.P. proposed construction of a 370-mile road through virgin rain forest that is home to 50,000 Pygmies. Many environmentalists wondered, By what logic do building roads into pristine areas and financing logging operations help preserve uncut forests...