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...that so many people move to the country to find peace, and then try to make it over into the place they left behind?" KATHY BOWMAN LAUDER Benton, Maine...
...rundown flat above a Chinese takeout restaurant--are finally any more conclusive. Or that the girls' chance encounters with figures out of that past--a slick, careless lover they once shared; a weird, enormous former roommate now lost to schizophrenia (and played with great and tender ferocity by Mark Benton)--are particularly illuminating...
WASHINGTON: In the campaign finance hearings' first long look at the other side of the aisle, eager Democrats spent the day grilling Benton Becker, lawyer for Hong Kong real estate developer Ambrous Tung Young. Becker readily described how erstwhile GOP think tank The National Policy Forum was used to funnel campaign donations from Hong Kong real estate developer Young and other foreign nationals to state GOP organizations. Becker maintained today that the RNC was well aware at the time that the money originated from a foreign company, making Young's donations illegal under US law. (The money was finally returned...
...unconscious, as with Pollock. Except for de Kooning and Franz Kline, most of the Abexers--Gorky, Pollock, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, William Baziotes, Barnett Newman, Adolph Gottlieb, Clyfford Still--saw the socially grounded activist art of the 1930s, whether Nativist like the Regionalism of Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Benton or left-wing Social Realist, as provincial, shallow and irrelevant. "Poor art for poor people," sniffed Gorky. They wanted to dive deeper. They valued the primordial, the spiritual, the primitive and the archetypal as sources of inspiration...
Citizen Ruth and Sling Blade are directorial debuts with regional roots (Omaha, Nebraska, and Benton, Arkansas). And both feature star turns with a twist: Burt Reynolds as an Operation Rescue-style evangelist, John Ritter as a gay, discount-store manager. But these films have more serious novelties to offer. Citizen Ruth is, lo and behold, a political satire, and Sling Blade has the richness of a fine Southern Gothic novel...