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...Hasty Pudding show, the players enter the dressing room as actors and come out actresses. Simply put, the guys become girls. It all happens backstage, the area of metamorphosis, the place where gender lines blur and men revel in putting on lipstick and brassieres. Of course, this kind of stuff may also occur in the actors' bedrooms, but only at the Pudding can they air themselves out to a large audience. A single stroll through the area behind the curtain would have supplied Freud with more than enough material for several volumes. As it is, the audience can only...
...best thing of all is that you can hear each instrument individually. The Olivz swim against the Nirvana-inspired grundge rock current of blur and amplifyer feedback. "Our music has balls, but our sound is clean," says Chambers...
...country was how to inform readers without appearing to give credence to charges that were unverifiable. "People talk about the media as if the Star, ABC, the Eagle and the New York Times were all the same," says Davis Merritt Jr., editor of the Wichita Eagle. "When we blur the lines by picking up from the Star, we invite that very devastating comparison...
...ever there was an issue cast in shades of gray, this is it. Faith is often a matter of given truths and absolute beliefs, but once it becomes entangled in law and politics, its certainties begin to blur. One of the primary fears of the separationists is that if government gets too involved with religion, the result will resemble the bloodless, lifeless state-backed churches in Europe. Many of the supporters of the church-state wall fear that politicians, bent on compromise more than conversion, would try to invent some inoffensive brand of faith -- the creche encircled by reindeer hauling...
Self-awareness is television's big-time plague. Name the social issue, front-page crime or family trauma, and somebody is thrashing it out on a TV talk show. A listing of typical topics is a surrealistic blur of human misery, sideshow voyeurism and sheer lunacy: illegitimate kids who found their natural parents but wish they hadn't; transplant recipients who claim to have adopted the personalities of their donors; women who have been raped by the same man more than once; guys who like overweight gals; mothers-in-law from hell; doctors with AIDS; crack addicts with babies; celebrities...