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...Boys of St. Vincent-a two-part film aired to great acclaim by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1992, then shown to further hosannas last summer in a Manhattan movie house-is surely the most compelling and edifying horror movie of the decade. It is written (by Des Walsh, John N. Smith and Sam Grana), directed (by Smith) and acted with a dreadful delicacy that subtly exposes both the sickness of the abusers and the beauty of the abused. But when the film plays next Sunday and Monday on cable's A&E network, that extraordinary scene between Lavin...
...intervenes. ``This is just a private labor dispute,'' adds Senate majority leader Bob Dole, and ``we Republicans want to keep the government out of things, not get it into things.'' That sounds coherent, but there's a significant slice of hypocrisy here: Congress is largely responsible for the current horror. It long ago stacked the deck against the players by exempting baseball from the antitrust laws, protection no other U.S. business enjoys. If the G.O.P. leadership were serious about getting the government out of things, it would join the call of Senators Orrin Hatch and Pat Moynihan to partly repeal...
...1960s. Airing in two parts -- Sunday and Monday -- on A&E (check local listings), the graphic drama raises troubling questions about the physical pain experienced by the young boys and the mental agony tormenting their abusers. TIME critic Richard Corliss describes it as "the most compelling, repellent and edifying horror movie of the decade," one with a complex message. The heroes in this film are "small, frightened boys or grown men who need to see righteous revenge achieved for the boys they once were...
...pauses a moment at Valentine's secularized altar, Whether to give thanks, curse fate, or ask what possible excuse HSA could have to charge $50 for a dozen long-stemmed roses. Even those who choose to observe the holiday by flinging themselves at their textbooks and praying for the horror to end can band together in solidarity, not to mention finish their reading for the first time this semester...
...Madness of King George" at1:45, 4:45, 7:15 and 10 p.m. and 12:10 a.m."Before Sunrise" at 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05 and10:20 p.m. and 12:20 a.m. "Rocky Horror PictureShow" at 12 a.m. on weekend nights...