Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MERCHANT of Venice is often a disturbing play for modern audiences, partly because of the overtones of morbidity and homosexuality in the friendship of Antonio and Bassanio, and partly because of the characters' anti-Semitism toward Shylock. The Currier House Drama Society production of Merchant tries to lessen audience anxiety by addressing these issues in novel ways and by taking advantage of opportunities for humor in what is, after all, supposed to be a comedy...
...original, Antonio and Bassanio have such extreme affection for each other that each is willing to offer up his life for the other without a second thought. Director Erik Salovaara makes this relationship less disquieting by changing Antonio into a woman, Antonia. Joanna Skoler's controlled performance and a few gender-altered pronouns smooth the transformation...
When the 17-year-old pregnant high school student walked into the Reproductive Services clinic in San Antonio last July, it was to seek an abortion. Ordinarily she would have been turned away; the girl was more than 30 weeks pregnant, well past the clinic's 17-week cutoff point. This time, however, the counselors offered something different: the chance to put the baby up for adoption. Last Friday the girl's daughter Bethany, seven weeks old, became the first baby to be placed by the clinic with adoptive parents...
Reproductive Services, which operates abortion clinics in six cities in Texas and one in Oklahoma, has teamed up with Adoption Affiliates, a newly founded child-placement agency, to offer both services under one roof. The San Antonio clinic and its affiliates are counseling a dozen pregnant women who may give up their infants for adoption. Previously the clinic was turning away two or more women a week who were ineligible for abortions...
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