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...Sang ... The director of Balm in Gilead is John Malkovich, who now seems on the springboard to stardom with his roles in Broadway's Death of a Salesman and the film Places in the Heart. In his liberal adaptation of Wilson's text, Malkovich has shown some up-front ingenuity: spotlighting or freeze-framing a conversation, orchestrating the Ivesian symphony of invective, offering instant replays of the climactic murder. But chaos still reigns. It is as if the frat brothers from Animal House, instead of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland, decided to put the show on right here...
...expected to prompt U.A.W. employees at Ford and GM to seek large increases when new contract talks begin in July. Says U.A.W. President Owen Bieber: "If these executives who are providing so well for themselves think for one minute that they can convince workers to do without an up-front raise this summer, they'd better think again...
...enough for a cineast just to make a horror picture about a young woman who literally gives birth to her nightmares, then copulates with the beast. The film must also be an up-front metaphor for the cosmic anomie of Western civ, and, to boot, a bilious satire on the smugness of the nuclear family...
...surprisingly consistent and strong body of music. Hexbreaker does not take any major leaps form their last record. Roman Gods, but rather intensifies the more danceable elements of the 1981 album. The new album's title track recalls the title track from Roman Gods and the 1980 E.P. Up-Front's "Theme from 'The Vindicators'" in its chants, yells, catchy hooks, and funky Gordon Spaeth saxophone...
...relatively uncontroversial but still progressive issues, like benefits for Viet Nam veterans. While not a naturally effusive campaigner like Frank, she is scrupulously attentive to bread-and-butter constituent problems. Paunchy, glib and (until recently) chronically disheveled, Frank seems more like a back-room political operative than an up-front candidate. But he and his liberal orthodoxy are especially popular in Brookline and Newton, slightly tweedy and heavily Jewish suburbs that were grafted from his old district onto...