Correspondence
CORRAO, PAUL & ROGERS, EDWARD F. & SCHADE, MRS. JULIA & MAHER, GREGORY G. & BRANIGAN, JOHN & GNEUHS, GEOFFREY B. & DALY, ROBERT & LORENTZ, JOAN & GILL, BARRY
The legacy of 'Roe' The PBS documentary "Murder on Abortion Row," discussed in your editorial ["Two Families," February 23] was, in my view, a stunning indictment of the 1973 Supreme Court decision...
...Stop the world...
...Though he mentioned that the film "made nearly a clean sweep of the New York Film Critics Circle and National Film Critics awards," Alleva did not seem that impressed...
...But their physical size is radically stunted, rarely exceeding that of a typical three-year-old...
...Other CS symptoms occurring in documented cases have included accelerated hair, bone, and muscle loss, early hearing and sight impairment, and severe digestion problems...
...julia schade Fairfield, Conn...
...Hang on to Alleva I hope you are not thinking of letting Richard Alleva get away from you, just because of a few disgruntled readers...
...For, whatever the ultimate judgment on the sanity or guilt of John Salvi, this tragic event is just another example of the civil war that has existed in this country since that unfortunate decision was handed down...
...CS children do age prematurely...
...I want to get off...
...He is a credit to your judgment in choosing columnists, and his brilliant response to John Hagen last September should have been compelling evidence of his value...
...He persuaded me to see Pulp Fiction, after long hesitation-and to appreciate it as I might not have on my own...
...Why don't you start future columns with his own proclamation: "Sooner or later, a movie's or novel's moral delinquency betrays itself through aesthetic delinquency...
...EDWARD F. ROGERS Middletown, N.J...
...Maitland wrote that CS is a disease characterized by "a body that grows, and therefore ages, twice as fast as anyone else's...
...This wanton destruction of human life-Shannon Lowney, Lee Ann Nichols, and the other victims (not to mention the clinic abortions and John Salvi himself)-is nothing less than the continuing legacy of Roe v. Wade in America...
...barry gill Napa, Calif...
...The tone is indicated by a gratuitous scene in which the hooker heroine is shown urinating and wiping herself...
...Later we reread the verdict passed by the New Yorker: "Although the film is terribly, crushingly sad, its honesty is refreshing...
...The legacy of 'Roe' The PBS documentary "Murder on Abortion Row," discussed in your editorial ["Two Families," February 23] was, in my view, a stunning indictment of the 1973 Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade...
...Why not...
...Perhaps "honesty" is the modern term for vulgarity...
...A Hollywood film about redemption...
...Auburn, Maine Raunchiness ignored On the strength of a favorable review in the New Yorker, my wife and I chose, much to our later regret, to see Leaving Las Vegas...
...The film was appalling, in terms of raunchiness of language and action: a gutter experience...
...At least she did it in the bathroom...
...PAUL CORRAO, M.D...
...CS, a genetic-based disease, is extremely rare, having been medically reported worldwide about sixty times...
...Cockayne's Syndrome Sara Maitland's review [February 9] of Salman Rushdie's novel, The Moor's Last Sigh, contained a reference to Cockayne's Syndrome (CS) that wasn't quite on the mark...
...Continued on page 43...
...This second American civil war is comparable in every way to the first and, like the latter, it is not likely to end until the Constitution is amended appropriately...
...After dealing kindly with the photography, he made good points about the film's lack of balance and motivation-but still not a word about its seaminess...
...GREGORY G. MAHER Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y...
...There is no ongoing research being conducted on CS...
...Then I noticed Richard Alleva's review of the film in Commonweal [February 23...
...The repentant thief What startled me in the film Dead Man Walking, not mentioned in Richard Alleva's review [February 23], was the symbolism of the "good thief" on Calvary, evoked by Matthew Pon-celet's asking for forgiveness before being executed...
...it names its poison and downs it, neat...
Vol. 123 • April 1996 • No. 7
