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...notes, "Grace was at an interesting sociological moment: the teenagers inhaled MTV and all wanted to look like convicted felons, but at the same time, nobody here was worried yet about razor blades in apples." And the matriarchs who make up the town sewing circle, called the Stitch and Bitch Club, are both amusing and formidable...
...company. Kingsolver introduces other complications, particularly the fate of Hallie, who has been captured by the U.S.-supported contras. To say everything is resolved happily would be misleading, but one hint may be allowed. Anyone who thinks a giant mining concern is any match for the Grace Stitch and Bitch Club has a lot to learn about eco-feminist novels...
Gone will be numerous references to Jenny as "bitch!" Gone will be the taunts to Oliver to hit his girlfriend. Gone will be jokes trivializing date rape. While Crimson Key's decision to eliminate blatant sexism from the performance is overdue, it is nonetheless important--and other upperclass students at Love Story should follow its example and refrain from continuing the insulting tradition...
...trouble in the same region. The American obsession with Cuba as the Soviet cat's-paw in the Western Hemisphere was one factor that led Washington to support Panama's Manuel Noriega. As an anticommunist, Noriega qualified, in Franklin Roosevelt's famous phrase, as "our son of a bitch." Not until the cold war faded and the war on drugs escalated did Noriega earn his place on the CIA's dart boards and a one-way trip to Miami, where he now sits in jail...
...downtown hotel room with a former girlfriend who had invited him there, inhaling twice from a pipe filled ; with crack cocaine and, finally, handcuffed and surrounded by police and FBI agents, muttering over and over, "Goddam, I shouldn't have come up here . . . that bitch...