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...kind of social concern that in the Reagan '80s became unfashionable, even antique. The album that The Joshua Tree displaced from the top of the chart is a revisionist rap record by the Beastie Boys, three well-born white teens copping street attitude but assuming social postures that teeter between preening smugness and snide irresponsibility. After arriving in Arizona, U2 discovered that Governor Evan Mecham had canceled the state's observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday. U2 considered canceling the concerts but did something better: made a contribution to the Mecham Watchdog Committee and played Pride...
...Lewis, already an Oscar-winning actor (for My Left Foot), had been offered, and had turned down, a role in one of Rebecca Miller's movies. Their new film, The Ballad of Jack and Rose--an unusual love story between a hippie father and daughter who seem to teeter on the brink of incest as they try to create a Utopian life on an island in the Atlantic--is the very one he rejected...
Mike Nichol’s new film Closer is infused with this type of magical chemistry, and at times the potency of the alchemic mix threatens to make its world teeter off balance. With a screenplay by Patrick Marber, adapted from his play of the same name, the picture is a tone poem to both love and its darker side. Dan (Jude Law), an obituary writer and aspiring novelist, shares a moment of charged visual contact with a beautiful girl as he makes his way to work in London one day. Her name is Alice (Natalie Portman...
Mike Nichol’s new film Closer is infused with this type of magical chemistry, and at times the potency of the alchemic mix threatens to make its world teeter off balance. With a screenplay by Patrick Marber, adapted from his play of the same name, the picture is a tone poem to both love and its darker side...
...Republicans found themselves in worse straits after the Watergate disaster. Midterm elections in 1974 left the party with 43 fewer House seats (down to a third of the chamber), 6 fewer governorships (down to only 12), and 21 percent fewer state legislators. Robert Teeter, a Detroit pollster hired then by the Republican National Committee to survey the wreckage, was candid in his report: “We are no longer a minority party. We have achieved the status of a minor party...