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Despite their violent and dehumanizing environment, Max and Horst's relationship deepens into love, and finally--in a tragic conclusion which recapitulates the movie's insistence on displaying powerful images of the horrors of the Holocaust--Max is forced to examine his convictions and his own identity. The film's evident main theme: the ability of the human spirit to escape even the most hopeless of prisons, so long as the individual understands and takes pride in itself...

Author: By Susannah R. Mandel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Melodramatic and Moody 'Bent' Translates Poorly to Film | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...events have no doubt spurred much of the debate in the state legislature. Jeffrey Curley's tragic kidnapping and murder inspired Governor A. Paul Cellucci and others to press particularly hard for death penalty legislation. Likewise, the somewhat dubious conviction of Louise Woodward for second-degree murder gave legislators pause over voting to allow the state to put an individual to death...

Author: By Michael M. Rosen, | Title: Clearing the Underbrush | 12/2/1997 | See Source »

Fertility experts are worried that all the attention being paid to the birth of seven healthy septuplets against monumental odds will convince others that such births are safer and less tragic than they so often turn out to be. Nevertheless, while she never set out to have septuplets, Bobbi has no doubt that she did the right thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEPTUPLETS: IT'S A MIRACLE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...likely that happy, if struggling, families like the Dilleys outnumber tragic ones like the Dionnes. But if the McCaugheys need a reminder of what awaits them, a recent study provides it. According to Australian researchers, it takes 198 hours a week to run a household and care for triplets. That's 30 more hours than there are in a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EVEN IN THE BEST HOMES, MULTIPLES ARE TROUBLE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

...reassured: "These people don't have to know each other. They click on the same Websites, they listen to the same music, they know the code." Last week, he surmises, they began a "game of chicken" with city authorities. Denver residents fear the game could take more tragic turns before it's over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCKY MOUNTAIN HATE | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

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