AS WITH SO MANY Washington City Paper articles, “Miracle Worker?” (The District Line, 9/3) confounds too many issues. Leaving aside the politics of the District government and the Abundant Life […]
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AIDSploitation
I WOULD LIKE TO commend you and correspondent Benjamin Wittes for having the guts to address the Abundant Life Clinic’s exploitation of the city’s most vulnerable populations affected by HIV/AIDS […]
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Energetic Action
LOOSE LIPS SHOULD have talked to me before writing his Aug. 20 column. I have been an energy economist for 31 years. In 1992 and ’93, I co-chaired Americans for […]
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PICK OF THE LITTER
Selecting the next council chairman from the crop currently competing for the job is like trying to decide whether you’d rather have your car stolen or your home burglarized. Preferable […]
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Betty’s Rubble
Claude Chabrol’s thrillers balance, sometimes artfully, between parody and homage. Traditionalist film buffs may prefer his efforts that can be labeled “Hitchcockian,” but the more interesting ones give the old-line […]
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Love and Let Die
Turns out that old Mojo Nixon song was right: Elvis is everywhere. At least in the movies. Both True Romance and Kalifornia thrust young couples into a landscape of violence; […]
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A Monumental Disappointment
You can picture it so easily: five massive women of various nationalities, their features carved in gleaming stone. Their faces are familiar, vaguely resembling those of the pert, determined ladies […]
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The Resurrection of Marion Barry
On Alabama Avenue and Randle Place SE, in the heart of Ward 8, five middle-age men sit at the old Congress Heights School playground talking about their new councilmember, Marion […]
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The Donner Party
16 T H U R S D A Y Where taboos are concerned, cannibalism is second to none in its ability to generate morbid interest. And long before Alive! there […]
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Free Kitten
15 W E D N E S D A Y Surely it’s just coincidence, but the Black Cat’s first out-of-town booking of note is Free Kitten, the part-time alliance of […]