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Vol. XClll, No. 152

Established 1894

Independent srnce 1971

Thursday, April 19,1990

 

Athletics officials
considering moving
student Rupp seats

By GREGORY A. HALL
Staff Writer

The UK athletics department is considering switching student seats in

the lower section of Rupp Arena.

The plan would move student sideline seats in the lower arena to the
lower end zone of the Patterson Street side so students could be closer to
the UK bench, according to UK Athletics Director C.M. Newton.

Newton called for a student committee and asked it Tuesday to gauge

student reaction to the plan.

If students oppose the plan, it will be dropped, Newton said.

“We just think that it might be an even better situation,” he said. “if it’s
a bad idea from the student standpoint, then we drop it."

Newton, basketball coach Rick Pitino and other athletics officials say
the switch would put students closer to the UK bench.

“It‘s something that we would like to do if the students feel somewhat
satisfied front their viewpoint and their needs," Newton said. “There is no

hidden agenda in this."

But Newton acknowledged that when the sideline seats come up for re-
newal they could be sold at a higher price to benefit the Athletics Associa—

tion's BlueWhite Fund.

If the move is approved, students would lose seven lower—arena seats,
according to Student Govemment Association President Sean Lohman.

The Athletics Department would compensate students with seven addi-
tional seats in the upper arena. Lohrnan said.

See TICKETS, Back page

 

 

Some like it hot. Two UK students make an aluminum cast using the Styrofoam burnout process Friday The arm? 1' 2‘ T" was part

of the College of Fine Arts’ week»long Arts Festival

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Money talks in gubernatorial election, Jones says

By BOBBY KING
Staff Writer

The high limit set on individual
campaign contributions is used to
coerce some voters, according to
Lt. Gov. Brereton Jones.

In a speech yesterday at UK’s
College of Law to about 50 people,
Jones said limiting individual con-
tributions to $4,000 is too high and
may encourage some illegal tac-
tics.

An example Jones gave was a
man who told him that he was
forced to contribute to one of his
opponent's campaigns.

The man, whom Jones identified
only as an engineer. said that his
employer forced him to contribute
$2,000.

“He said, ‘l‘ve been told that l
have to contribute $2,0(X) to one of
your opponents who’s running for
governor because we do so much
engineering work with people that
are involved with this person,‘ "
Jones said.

The man told him that he would
lose his Job if he didn’t kick in
$2,000, Jones said.

“He said. ‘l don‘t have another

See MONEY, Back page

 

 

Cowan

to run for
Lt. Gov.

Assoctated Press

FRANKFORT. Ky. _. At—
torney General Fred Cowan
will enter next year’s Demo—
cratic primary for lieutenant
g0vernor, delaying a run for
the governorship until 1995.

Cowan, who is frorn Louis-
ville, had said he was leaning
toward a run for governor in
l99l. He said there were sev-
eral reasons “political. per—
sonal, financial" for lowering
his sights. but he declined to
be specific.

“I do plan to run for gov-
crnor in W95. However, I do
think there are lot of things I
can and will do as lieutenant
govemor, and I’m going to be
concentrating on those

See COWAN, Back page

 

 

KEITH JOHNSOMKsrnal Staff

Lt. Gov. Brereton Jones, who spoke yesterday to about 50 people
at the College of Law, called for the reform of campaign financing.

Sallie Bingham tells writers to talk about

By JULIE ESSELMAN
Special Protects Writer

In an awards ceremony yesterday
honoring some of the University’s
best writers and English teachers.
noted author and feminist Sallie
Bingham encouraged the “talking
about fear," through writing and
speech. to address individual and
societal problems.

“(Fearsl cart only be whittled
down by speaking of them: the fear
of unwanted pregnancy, of AIDS.
of venereal disease. of the many
diseases caused by pollution of the
environment. of the loss of our nat«
ural world through the forces of
overdevelopment and greed," Bing-
ham said.

“Talking about fear is the first
step toward mistressing it,“ she
said.

Bingham is the author of Passion
and Prejudice, which describes
what she saw as oppression and
discrimination in the operations of
The Louisville Courier-Journal
when her father, Barry Bingham
Sr., owned the newspaper.

 

“(Fears) can only be whittled down by speaking of
them: the fear of unwanted pregnancy. of AIDS, of
venereal disease. of the many diseases caused by
pollution of the environment, of the loss of our
natural world through the forces of overdevelopiiieiit

and greed."

Sallie Bingham

She also founded the Kentucky
Foundation for Women, which pro—
vides grants to Kentucky women
artists, writers and scholars.

“We live among enormously
powerful constraints in a society
that calls itself free so that we do
not have to consider its cruel lack
of freedom,“ Bingham said. “Worn-
en. of course, and African-
Arnericans and Native Americans
and handicapped people and old
people and people of different sex-
ual persuasions and inclinations
suffer the most.

“But just consider m where one
individual is enslaved all are eri-

slaved. \'ou too will feel the
edge of that lash. just the mere edge
of oppression."

Bingham said “the constraints on
vivid thought and forceful action"
in our society prevent many people
front talking about their fears or the
societal problems they see.

“We've seen some of the barriers
begin to erode” in the more fre.
quent writings about acquired iin-
munc deficiency syndrome and
works by the gay comtiiunrty and
feminists who “are a little more
willing to come forward and claim
their identity." Bingham said.

But. she said. “there‘s still more

to be done."

Some of that “talking about fear”
may continue to come from some
of the UK English students and
teachers who were honored yester-
day.

The linglish Department‘s maior
writing awards, w lirch were high-
lighted last riiotitli iii and Life. the
Kentucky Kernel's literary :inpple~
merit, were presented.

Meredith Little. a biolo'} sopho-
more. won the Farquhar .\w.ird tor
Poetry. and Chris Green. .in l;ng~
lish senior, was runner—rip.

Greg Puckett, an Ellgihit magior,
won the Darn/.ler Award for Fic—
tion for his short story. “ l he Short
Straw."

Scot Brannon, an English gradu-
ate student. won the Academy of
American Poets award. and link
Reece. also an English graduate
student. was runner»up.

English professor Nikki Finney.
one of the poetry judges. \illti she
was impressed with [ills year‘s
work by lJK writers.

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Brannon and (ireeri are working

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‘Crazy People’
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 2 — Kentucky Kernel, Thursday, April 19. 1990

ROTC policy on homosexuals criticized

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Major uni—
versities are warning the Pentagon
that a military policy barring ho-
mosexuals from service is generat—
ing pressure to oust ROTC from
campuses.

“The contradiction between the
university‘s principle of non—
discrimination against individuals
on the basis of sexual orientation,
and the presence of an ROTC that
does discriminate, cannot exist on
the campuses indefinitely," John
M. Deutch, provost of the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology
said in a letter to Defense Secretary
Dick Cheney.

“Many universities will withdraw
from the ROTC program," Deuteh
wrote.

The Department of Defense de-
clined to comment on the campus
pressure.

Maj. Doug Hart said that because
the policy is being challenged in
court the department has limited re—
sponses to a written statement out~
lining the reasons for barring ho—
moscxuals.

The military contends that homo—
sexuality is incompatible with mil-
itary service because of the close
quarters in which people of the
same sex must live and because of
the security risk posed by the pos—
sibility ofa homosexual officer be-
ing blackmailed.

Top administrators, faculty
groups and students from MIT, the

 

“The contradiction between the university’s
principle of non-discrimination against individuals
on the basis of sexual orientation, and the presence
of an ROTC that does discriminate, cannot exist on
the campuses indefinitely.”
John M. Deutch,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology provost

—
University of Wisconsin, Universi- tion stems from explicit anti-
ty of Minnesota, Northwestern discriminatory provisions in uni—
University and others have actively versity charters. Wisconsin has a
campaigned against the Reserve Of— state law barring discrimination
ficer Training Corps policy. against homosexuals.

No ROTC program has been re— The University of Wisconsin fa-
moved from a campus as a result of culty senate voted in December to
the opposition. expel ROTC from campus because

The ROTC. in the past year, has of its policy on homosexuals. The
denied several gay cadets their of f i- university regents refused to accept
cer‘s commission and sought repay» that proposal but told President
ment of thousands of dollars in Kenneth Shaw to lobby the state
scholarship money. congressional delegation, which in-

Until recently, gay men and les- eludes House Armed Services Coni-
bians have been on their own in mittee Chairman Les Aspin, a
fighting the Pentagon policy. Democrat.

One such student, Robert Bettik- “We want to see the law
er, was one semester from gradua~ changed,” Shaw said in a telephone
tion at MIT when he told his super- interview. “We‘re not interested in

ior that he was gay. Bettiker was
denied his commission and asked to
repay $38,612 in scholarship mon—
ey.

The growing concern among uni-
versity officials confronts the De-
partment of Defense for the first
time with institutional opposition
to the policy.

In many instances, the opposi-

getting out of ROTC."

Shaw said that Aspin was “sup-
portive but not optimistic“ that
Congress could pass a law overrid-
ing the Pentagon policy.

At Northwestern University in
Evanston, 111., an ad-hoc student
group called for the removal of the
campus ROTC program and the
student government organization

voted to ban the program from us-
ing university facilities and funds.
Neither recommendation was ac-
cepted by the administration.

A faculty group at the Universi-
ty of Minnesota urged administra-
tors to lobby Washington lawmak-
ers to change the policy.

“We really shouldn‘t be standing
for discrimination at any level,”
said Dick Caldecott, the universi-
ty’s liaison for federal relations.

At Washington University in St.
Louis, where gay ROTC cadet
James Holobaugh is being asked to
repay his scholarship, a student ref-
erendum to remove ROTC was de-
feated. However, the provost has
written ROTC officials complain-
ing about the policy.

The concern by MIT is particu-
larly significant because of the in-
stitute’s long-standing relationship
with the Pentagon. MIT receives
substantial research grants from the
govemment for projects with mili-
tary applications.

“One unfortunate consequence of
this policy is to increase hostility
to the DOD on university campus-
es," Deutch said in his letter to
Cheney.

The ROTC includes 86,000 stu-
dents at 529 campus locations.
About 21,700 students receive
ROTC scholarships, which pay for
tuition. bmks and fees, Hart said.

 

Child pornography
in the home illegal,
high court rules

Associated Press

WASHINGTON —-— States may make it a crime to possess or
look at child pornography, even in one‘s home. the Supreme Court
said yesterday as it imposed new limits on freedom of expression
and privacy.

Voting 6-3, the justices upheld an Ohio law aimed at stamping
out such material by punishing those who buy it, not only those
who sell it.

Conservatives cheered the decision, saying it gives states a blue-
print for tough legislation.

Beverly LaHaye of Concerned Women for America said every
state should “take advantage of this decision and immediately begin
to crack down on this depraved and contemptible exploitation of
children.”

But Justice William J. Brennan, in an opinion dissenting from
the court ruling, said the law is so vague and so sweeping that it
might ban the engravings of nude children “that adorn our com—
In a separate issue involving children, several justices voiced con-
cern yesterday that society’s desire to protect children could deny fair
trials to people charged with child abuse.

J ustiee Antonin Scalia led the questioning as the court heard argu-
ments in cases from Maryland and Idaho on whether defendants in
child-abuse cases are entitled to at least one face—to-face confronta-
tion with their young accusers.

center owner by a 7-year-old.

lowed to testify over closed-circuit television because a social work-
er had said she would be too upset to testify in court.

emotional trauma, but this woman is going to jail for 15 years.”

laws against possessing such material. Ohio’s law has been de-

Tne Maryland case involved accusations against a female daycare

State Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr. said the child was al-

Scalia said a court appearance might well be “something of an

As for child pornography, 18 states besides Ohio already have

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scribed as the nation’s toughest.

A more liberal high court invoked free—speech anti privacy rights
in 1969 when it barred states from outlawing zit-home possession of
obscene materials.

But the court said yesterday that such protection applies only to
obscenity depicting adults. At-home possession of sexually explicit
material depicting children is not protected, even if the material is
not obscene, the court said.

The justices in 1982 carved out a major exception to free-speech
rights when they let states outlaw the sale and distribution of mate-
rial depicting children in sexual performances or poses — even if
not obscene.

The court for more than 30 years has allowed states to outlaw the
sale and distribution of obscene material, ruling in a series of cases
that such material is not constitutionally protected.

Justice Byron R. White, writing for the court yesterday, said that
Ohio legitimately seeks to “destroy a market for the exploitative
use of children" by making possession of child pornography a
crime.

“Given the importance of the state‘s interest in protecting the vic-
tims of child pornography, we cannot fault Ohio for attempting to
stamp out this vice at all levels in the distribution chain," he said.

White agreed with prosecutors that the child—pomography industry
has gone underground and the best way to attack it is by drying up
the market of potential buyers.

He also said that Ohio’s law is not too broad because, in effect,
the Ohio Supreme Court rewrote it to forbid only “lewd" depictions
of children with a “graphic focus” on the genitals.

Having innocuous photos of one's children wearing no clothes is
not a crime, White said.

In the ease in question, the court on narrow grounds struck down
the conviction of Clyde Osborne of Columbus who challenged the
Ohio law.

The justices said the jury was not instructed property. They or-
dered a new trial for Osborne, who had been sentenced to six
months in prison and fined $100 for possessing nude photos of a
boy believed to be 13 or 14.

But Brennan said the court, by upholding the Ohio law, is sacri-
ficing individual rights in its zeal to crack down on child pomogra-
phy.

“At bottom, the court today is so disquieted by the possible ex-
ploitation of children in the production of the pornography that it is
willing to tolerate the imposition of criminal penalties for simple
possession," he said.

“Mr. Osbome’s pictures may be distasteful. but the Constitution
guarantees both his right to possess them privately and his right to
avoid punishment under an overbroad law."

Joining Brennan's opinion were Justices Thurgood Marshall and
John Paul Stevens. White was joined by Chief Justice William H.
Rehnquist and Justices Harry A. Blackmun, Sandra Day O'Connor,
Antonin Scalia and Anthony M. Kennedy.

Osborne was 61 when he was prosecuted in 1985. Prosecutors
said he got the pictures from a Florida mail-order business, and had
placed them in a photo album in his home. The photos were dis—
covered after police searched Osbome’s home on a tip that he had
bought the material.

 

 

 

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DIVERSIONS

Kentucky Kernel, Thursday. April 19, 1990 — 3

Hunter Hayes
Arts Editor

 

‘Crazy People’ relies on cliches, but its humor succeeds

 

Satire is .
subject of
several

movies on

home video

By KIP BOMB
Senior Staff Critic

If the new movie “Crazy
People,” which parodies the
advertising industry, doesn’t
go far enough, here's a list of
some other notable satires
available at video stores now.

-“Network” —— This 1976
Sydney Lumet film sports an
excellent cast with Faye Dun-
away. William Holden and
Peter Finch. It is an excellent
satire of TV journalism and
its shallow nature. The black
humor courses throughout the
film.

Finch immortalized himself
and the movie with the fa-
mous line, “I’m mad as hell,
and I’m not going to take it
anymore!”

-“One Flew Over the Cuck—
oo’s Nest” — Jack Nichol-
son dominates this movie
with a stellar performance.
Milos Foreman (“The Un-
bearable Lightncss of Being”)
pulls all of the dark humor
and cruelty he can in his 1974
adaptation of the Ken Kesey
novel.

Louise Fletcher plays the
diabolical Nurse Ratched who
torrnents the mental patients
in the asylum. The movie
speaks to the often brutal
conditions of some mental in—
stitutions and their dehuman—
izing effects.

-"The Lady From Shano
ghai" -- Orson Welles wrote
and directed this movie which
parodied the cliched detective
movies of the genre that dom—
inated the big screen in the
1940s. In addition to Welles,
this 1948 movie also stars
Rita Hayworth.

"‘I’m Gonna Git You
Sucka” - Kenan Ivory Way-
ans sends up of all the black
exploitation movies of the
I970s. All of the characters
have “jive" names and wear
’703 clothes.

In an interesting side note
he included Jim Brown and
Isaac Hayes, who appeared in
a number of those movies
during that decade, in the cast.
-“This Is Spinal Tap” —— One
of Rob Reiner’s first films
parodies heavy metal bands
and their basic stupidity.
Christopher Guest, Harry
Shearer and Micheal McKcan
head the cast of this 1984
m0vie. Cameo appearances
include Billy Crystal, Howard
Hessman and Paul Shaffer.

~“Hollywood Shuffle” ~— In
this 1987 film, Robert Town-
send parodies the way blacks
are treated in Hollywood. In
particular he takes jabs at the
way white producers and di-
rectors attempt to get black
actors to act “black.”

Townsend’s movie includes
a take off on mOVie reviewers
Gene Siskel and Roger Eben
and on a jive school.

-“Life of Brian” —— Actual-
ly any of the movies put out
by the six-man comedy group
Monty Python qualify as sat-
ire. but this one is their bold-

est.

The 1979 spoof makes fun
of religious zealko and how
easily people are influenced.

-“Parents" —~ Bob Balaban
directs a spoof of the urban
horror film with an excellent
cast. Randy Quaid, Mary Beth
Hurt and Sandy Dennis star in
this 1987 movie in which
Quaid’s y0ung son asks
where they get their leftovers.

The father works as a
butcher and brings home all
, _ ,lcinds of meat.

-"Young Frankenstein” ——
Many of Mel Brooks’ films
also qualify as satire. but this
1974 effort may be his bcst.

Gene Wilder and Marty
Feldman spearhead the satire
of 19303 black and white hor-
ror films. This movie was
made even more effective be-
cause it was shor in black and
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By KIP BOWMAR
Senior Staff Critic

Director Tony Bill’s new movie
“Crazy People” offers some of the
most cutting, savage satire on the
advertising industry Hollywood has
unleashed in the last few years.

The film, which begins in New
York. focuses on Dudley Moore as
a beleaguered, mn down ad man and
Paul Reiser as his partner. Moore’s
character is tired of constantly mis-
representing products in advertise-
ments so he creates a line of truth-
ful ads, saying that it is time to
stop lying to the public.

Reiser responds by institutional-
izing him until he regains his bear—
ings. Due to a clerical crror
Moore‘s ads are shipped out to the
public.

The messages bombard the pub-
lic, anti their response is over-
whelmingly favorable. Mitch Mar-
kowitz, scriptwritcr and assistant

producer for the film. creates some
hilarious ad campaigns such as “Ja-
guars: for men who want hand jobs
from beautiful women they hardly
know," or a claim for a horror mo-
vie that will “F--k you up for life.”
When other products such as Matt-
lox and Volvo are stripped down to
their bare essentials in the advertis-
ing campaign, their sales escalate.

In the mental institution, Moore
meets a group of people who are
not crazy but need the chance to
prove their sanity. They help him
conduct his campaign, which con-
tinues to be successful. However.
the Change in the condition of the
mental patients is too rapid and
complete.

Moore mecLs and dcvclops a rcla-
tionship with Darryl Hannah . — the
obligatory love ititcrcd . at the
institution. If the changcs in the
patients and love life of Moore‘s
character sound too good to be true,
you’re right. This aspect of the mo-

vie sccms unrcalistic because it is
hard to imagine Hannah as a total
nut case.

The movie’s satire falls short be-
cause Markowitz did not develop it
enough. While some of the scenes
in which Moore interacts with the
mental patients are cute and endear-
ing, they also are cliched. Common
Hollywood lhcmes —- such as
who’s crazy: those on the inside or
the outside A run throughout the
film. In yet another of the film in-
dustry’s interpretations of mental
paticnts, the “insane” characters add
an cnscmblc fccl to the movie, but
they _|US[ arc not credible in most
scenes.

Markowit/s satire docs hone in
on what is commonly pcrccivcd to
bc u crookcd industry. The satirc
apricot; to the common distrust of
adycrtising.

When .\loorc asks Reiser to lcvcl
with thc pcoplc and tell the truth,
Rctscr simply says, in a line that

drcw a gargantuan laugh from the
audience, “Wc can‘t tell the truth
*7 we‘re in advcrtising."

But the kind of ads Moorc uses
in the film arc the kind that people
want to scc. Sincc many advcrtiscrs
play tip thcsc distrusted images
with charactcrs llkC Joe Izusu. thcy
shouldn‘t complain when people
take thcm at thcir word.

The nicrging of the two divcrv
gent story lines docxn‘t dcrtiil the
movie‘s momentum or humor. but
“Crazy Pcoplc" could htnc bccn
much funnicr. l‘or multiplc. lfic‘ix-
cr‘s talents add to ill; ruot tc curly
on. but he fades into olngurtty and

is a nonvfactor for It * [AI of thc
lttoyic.

lf ttticxtiouul‘l- lr: 'u.igc lll mo-
vics |.\' usually thrown in for a
laugh thcn Ihll .tltrl .\l;irkrn.yit/.

must find \ontqthtrtg inhcrcntly
funny about thc word f—-k. The

word is used throughout thc film
and finally bccotncs gratuitous and
predictable. Sometimes such a ploy
works with exccllcnt results, as in
Steve Martin‘s litany of obscenity
in “Planes. Trillllx and Automo-
hllc‘s."

But ll doesn‘t add that much to
this movie and cwntually bccomcs
dcad wcight on thc st rrpt

Anothcr annoying l.i.tor l\ the
background ntuxr. which gcts
more noticcahlc as thc nroyic pro—

gresses. The point of thc llitlxl’c' is
to hcightcn a \’t.ll.' rot dctract
from it.

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Czech president Havel’s plays are PBS subject

By DEBORAH HAS‘flNGS
Associated Press

LOS ANGELES —— Imagine a
life in which you’re banned from
practicing your profession. Teach-
er? You can‘t teach. Painter? Put
away those brushes. Playwright?
You will never see your work per—
formed in your own country.

Worse, the government will in-
carcerate you for defying those
rules. And when you’re not in pris-
on, it will find you work — as a
cab driver and a brewery worker.

That was the life of Vaclav Hav-
el, the dissident Czechoslovakian
playwright who now leads a coun-
try still hungover from the intoxi-
cating revolution that has rewritten
its history.

To get a gut feeling for what
Havel’s life has been like lately,
watch “Havel’s Audicnce with His-
tory“ on PBS tomorrow.

Hosted by Paul Newman, the
documentary chronicles the first
public performance of a Havel play
in Czechoslovakia.

It is January. and Havel has been
president for two weeks. The play,
titled Audience, is 15 years old and
the new Czechoslovakian leader is
in the emotional audience. His dis-
hevclcd manncr makes him one of
the world's most unlikcly prcsidcn—
tial candidatcs.

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Square, the site of Czechoslovak-
ia’s mass demonstrations. The fact
it debuted at all was due to two
New York-based documentary pro-
ducers who thought “God, we’ve
got to do this."

Robert Kantcr and Michael Wol-
kowitz first saw Atttlit'nct' pcr-
formed in .\'cw York by Newman’s
Actors Studio. That was Dcccmbcr.
and Czcchoslovakiu‘s “Vclyct Roy»
olution“ was in ftrll tilt.

What if. Kanter and Wolkowitz
thought, we took this production to
Prague? In 47 days. they arranged
the financing, sccurcd Havcl‘s
blessings. luggcd a crew onto a
trans-Atlantic flight and completed
filming.

“We never stopped to question
it," said Kantcr, 37. in a phone in-
terview front New York. “From the
beginning, we thought this was
something we had to do."

Btit seeing it become a reality
was overwhelming.

“I cried, Michacl cried. It was
probably the most incredible theat-
rical experience of my life.” he
said.

Foreign correspondent Dan Fish-
cr. who covered thc “Vclvct Rcyo»
lution" for the Los .\ngclcs Times,
was also in the .‘llltfr’t’flt c audiencc.

“To actually scc it done in public
is somcthtng clsc.” l‘lSlle said tn a
phonc intcryicw from London.

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and chockiull of absurdity, show-
cases a soddcn conversation be-
tween a sleazy, communist brew-
mastcr and the blacklisted
playwright forced to work for him.

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