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...climax in a bizarre series of fade-outs that symbolize pauses between pelvic thrusts. Gere, as Julian Kaye, makes it clear that he does only straight, high-class women. He looks more embarrassed than worried when he gets framed for a handcuffs-cum-sex murder that he didn't commit in this kinky-trick movie that John Travolta should have made. Schrader filled his script with coincidences and absurd plot devices that are so ridiculous, so inconceivable they may well be true--the way True Confessions and True Love are true...
...invasion of Afghanistan lays bare the basic untruths upon which the Soviet state is founded. It did not commit an act of war in the name of Communism. Nay, it did it for the lust of empire...
Steiner said 29 Garden St., currently housing Harvard graduate students, satisfies most of the requirements. However, since no cost estimate has been made, Steiner said the administration will not commit itself to that site...
...political alliance for waging the electoral campaign. The pragmatic Nkomo, who represents the minority Ndebele tribal groups, is seeking total unity among the guerrilla factions. The left-leaning Mugabe, backed by the far more numerous Shona, sees a chance of winning outright a parliamentary majority and is reluctant to commit himself to any power-sharing scheme. In fact some observers believe this very issue caused a recent falling out between Mugabe and Tongogara, who had been a staunch advocate of guerrilla unity. The British sponsors of the settlement could only hope that such rivalries would not frustrate the prevailing desire...
...yesterday's story about Zbigniew Brzezinski, it was stated that at the end of an interview with a reporter from a national magazine-as a joke-Brzezinski committed an offensive act, and that a photographer took a picture "of this unusual expression of playfulness." Brzezinski did not commit such an act, and there is no picture of him doing so. -Washington Post...