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Perhaps by Sept. 23, the occasional uncomfortable parallels will have faded. And audiences will see that the film's deepest resonances are with Allen's most popular previous works: comedies of urban manners shadowed by his rueful recognition of those abiding sexual confusions that he has always observed with a...
The plight of the Shi'ites is serious, but the note of selfless compassion did not quite ring true. Just 17 months ago, when Saddam was ruthlessly crushing their rebellion in the south, Western leaders stood by and did nothing. At the time, they argued plausibly if heartlessly that an...
Hemingway was wrong. The very rich are not different from you and me. They can be just as foolish and venal as the rest of us. Over the years it has been difficult to pity Ann Woodward. Certainly Truman Capote and Dominick Dunne were merciless in their barely disguised fictional...
Instead of simply outlawing the contracts, states should pass laws that require contracts to include a provision that guarantees visitation rights to the natural mother if she wants them. Surrogates' compassion and strong maternal instincts ought not to be disregarded, but instead included in the baby's life.
The first wave of gay response to AIDS was fear, mixed alternately with denial and paranoia. The second wave, the past few years, has been a therapeutic anger, an opportunity for the grief-stricken to vent their pain and for the dying to give meaning to their premature passing. The...