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What’s Love
Got To Do With It?
The story of Tina Tumer’s years with abusive husband Ike is a harrowing one — but is it the complete picture.
Page 6
The Cocteau
Twins
Grangemouth’s finest
exponents of swirly, girly soundscapes return on a new
label, and singing
recognisable words at last.
Page 8
A new theatre piece explores male sexuality through the accounts of men who solicit in
WC
public toilets. Page 11
John Woo
Hong Kong’s answer to Martin Scorsese offers two contrasting new movies, Hollywood production Hard Target and the rather more
visceral Hard Boiled. Page 12
Scott Turow
One of the new breed of
Hollywood-friendly
blockbuster novelists along with Crichton and Grisham,
Turow follows up
Presumed Innocent with
Pleading Guilty. Page 14
FOR JOBS IN THE ARTS, ME - SEE CLASSIFIED RECRUITMENT PAGE 72
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FILM
Raining Stones 15 Rising Sun 16 Young Americans 17 Film Index 19 Listings 24
The History of Scottish Rock and Pop 29 The Goats 30 BBC 880 32 Album reviews 34 Live reviews 36 Listings Rock & Blues 37 Jazz 40 Folk & World 42 Classical & Opera 45 Romeo and Julie! 47 Iphigenia in Tauris 48 Reviews 49 Listings Theatre 50 Dance 53 Comedy 53 Thomas Joshua Cooper 54 Barbizon School 55 Listings 56 Listings 59 Listings 61 Listings 62 Listings 63 All In The Game 64 Safe 65 Video Reviews 66 Channel Hopping 66 Listings 67 Paul Theroux 69 Alasdair Gray 69 Reviews 70 Events 71 Classified 72 Food 77 Aberdeen Alternative Festival 78 Competitions 79 Letters BO
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