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...postcard-picturesque county seat, Taos (pop. 3,500) has weathered older if less disruptive migrations. Its primitive charm and unassailable isolation have made it a magnet since the 1890s for hundreds of bohemian writers and artists. One of the first hippies to come was D. H. Lawrence, whose ranch and grave near by have been turned into a literary shrine. Swarms of tourists followed those early migrants, and Taos County now boasts ski resorts, art galleries and countless souvenir shops...
Warren's main objective in rushing adoption of the code was to protect the independence of the U.S. judiciary. Two bills now before Congress would require judges to make financial reports available to the House Judiciary Committee or to the Comptroller General, whose office is controlled by Congress. Until recently, the judges were able to resist such a requirement by noting that neither the executive nor the congressional branch of government required such disclosure from its members. But Congress last year enacted its own code of ethics-however weak-and the judges could no longer complain that they were...
Confusion of Identities. The aggressiveness of the aboriginal hunter proved useful in the development of human civilization. It not only produced bold suppliers of meat but brawny and self-assured males whose belligerence enforced order in the group, insulated its frailer members against outside enemies, and imperiously cornered the most desirable females. Man who possessed these traits, says Tiger, guaranteed their own succession and the improvement of the species by eliminating the weaker, less assertive males...
...wooed and chosen with the same meticulous care as mates. Investiture into a masculine order-an army unit or the Masons-is like marriage, which explains in part the thread that binds the warrior to his buddy. At its least edifying, says Tiger, the male bond unites homosexuals-men whose "eagerness to attract other males may as clearly betray a craving for male bonds as a confusion about sexual identity and the desire to be female...
Sentimentalists will accept Days without question or quibble. Actor Olmer bears an uncanny resemblance to Mike Nichols and performs with bemused authority, but the film really belongs to Thalie Fruges, whose effortless, effervescent sexuality lends Days a small but firm distinction...