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...cold war is over. The war between the sexes has some potential to take its place, to fill the need for portentous conflict with seemingly enormous issues and irreconcilable differences, as between cobra and mongoose, earthling and alien. Men and women at one another's throats, or waving knives at one another's private parts, admirably fuse the dimensions of the intimate and the world-historical. Journalists and essayists have to make a living; men and women leading peaceful, productive lives with one another have to be dragged somehow into the combat. Accordingly: "You hear what she said about...
...conclusion that white middle- and upper-middle-class American women -- from whose ranks the majority of militant feminists arise, the ones who call themselves "womyn" to keep the hated syllable "men" out of their identity -- are the most privileged people in the history of the planet. The alien would be stoned to death for saying it, however...
...action on three sets that fill the RSC's small stage and position the actors mere feet, if not inches, from the audience as they portray over-the-top derangement. All are good, and the two nuttiest -- Gary Whitaker, as the youth who comes to believe he is an alien, and Brenda Blethyn, as the neglected wife who regresses into toddlerhood -- rip open psychic dungeons to unleash dragons of despair...
...dangers are especially frightening for thousands of alien residents. Last autumn, militant Islamists threatened death to all foreigners who did not quit the country. "The terrorists play on people's nerves until they crack up and leave," says a member of the dwindling French community. Raymond Louzoum, who was married to a Muslim and had applied for Algerian nationality, did not want to go and so became the 27th victim. "He fitted my first pair of glasses when I was four years old," said a young woman who works in an office opposite the optician's shop, choking back tears...
FIRED. Hal ("Green Lantern") Jordan, 34, earthly emissary of the Guardians of the Universe; as a member of the Green Lantern corps; in Coast City. Jordan disobeyed the Guardians and used his power ring for personal business, attempting to resurrect his hometown after its destruction by an alien. Ignoring demands to give back the ring, Jordan turned villain last month and was dismissed. A new Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner, will be appointed in coming weeks...