In Thelma, the eponymous lead may undergo terrifying, serpent-filled incidents, but she ultimately gets to experience liberation, love and self-acceptance upon the realisation that she's gay.
Don Kilhfner, who co-founded the Gay Liberation Front/LA and the Los Angeles Gay Community Services Center in 1969-1971 with Morris Kight, told me that Nagourney "didn't really get" gay liberation.
It could not get us to liberation, so we adapted.
"We don't want to force civilians to leave, but at the same time we're afraid they might get hurt during the liberation of the city".
When the put-upon Rosalind and her companion, Celia (Renee Elise Goldsberry), disguise themselves and escape to the Forest of Arden — "Now go we in content / To liberty, and not to banishment," Celia announces — we get the idea of liberation but not the thrill of it.
But as you continue to the 33rd Street stop, across Queens Boulevard from the temporary Modern, the liberation gets slightly out of control.
Simply to get out feels like a liberation.
Unless NATO, including the United States, get more serious, Libya's liberation war could turn into a prolonged, bloody stalemate.
So, if, like us, you plan to spend your summer break gazing at a sea-blue horizon and being drawn to the non-digital sights and smells around you, then why not extend your liberation when you get home?
