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Director Walter Hill's combat sequences are short and sharp, but there are not quite enough of them. The script, by Hollywood's last rogue males, John Milius and Larry Gross, devotes too much time to parlay and palaver -- to self-justification, if you will. Depending on your point of view, that's either a necessity or a sad commentary on the state of traditional male ways of being...
President Clinton signed legislation lifting the ban against women serving aboard naval combat vessels. Women will be assigned to three aircraft carriers...
...meeting, which was attended by about 40 students, provided an opportunity for "minority groups to come together to try to understand each other and combat some of the negatives of separatism, while recognizing the positives," said Jean L. Tom '96, co-chair of the Minority Student Alliance...
Boston's shrinking Combat Zone is in one end ofChinatown. The Naked I Cabaret, a totally nudestripjoint, is on the corner of Washington andBeach Streets. Next door is a triple-X gaytheater, and then some porn shops. Outside theNaked I, Michael Hutch asks for change. He'strying to get together seven dollars so he can buya ticket and sleep in the movie theater. "Fuckingperverts in there," he mumbles. "I just want to goand get some fucking sleep.A-12The Gate from Boston into Chinatown. Oneblock down is The Rainbow. Five to the Naked...
...progressive views he expressed during the council evolved out of wartime experience. Though drafted into a paramilitary corps, the teenage Joseph saw no combat because of a badly infected finger. He never learned to fire a gun, and his weapons were never loaded -- even when he performed guard duty in a BMW plant. But there he saw laborers conscripted from a branch of the Dachau concentration camp. He also remembers seeing Hungarian Jews being shipped to their death. "The abyss of Hitlerism could not be overlooked," he said. The depredations of the officially atheistic regime led to his conviction that...