Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...archetypes, with readings from Camille Paglia and Robert Bly." In this day of the Million Man March, the college's Malcolm X Institute has assumed a larger influence on campus. Alumni are hailed not just in Big Business (former AT&T chairman Robert Allen) but also in show business (Broadway costume designer Tom Broecker), and Wabash was the first college to produce the Pulitzer-prizewinning play about AIDS, Angels in America. At the same time, Wabash's old-fashioned but effective code, "The Gentleman's Rule"--which says the only rule is that students behave like gentlemen--is winning grudging...
...liberated. The Vagina Monologues, which has been staged around the world, most notably with an all-star cast in New York City last year, is now off-Broadway, being performed solo by its author. Shorn of the somewhat overbearing I-am-woman-hear-me-roar vibes of the celebrity-studded version, its strengths as a one-woman show become apparent. Sitting on a stool with only a few lighting effects for embellishment, Ensler can soar to Rabelaisian heights (giving a bravura impression of every type of orgiastic moan) or move us with quiet compassion (a woman in her 70s describes...
...Minutes pass. Alex, Jason, Crazylikes and four of their friends set out westward down Broadway. Two ride bikes; five carry Eastpak backpacks; all wear baggy jeans--seven 15-year-old black guys sauntering toward Area Four, the East Cambridge teen center. They discuss bicycles and basketball. Jason tells the others about a kid in his class who told a teacher to shut...
...when Cambridge Rindge and Latin lets out for the day and the afternoon sun hits the school full in the face, most of the West Cambridge kids rush to soccer practices or piano lessons. Lunch time, on the other hand, brings them to Broadway Market. Hordes of them snatch at overpriced pastries and clog the check-out aisles. The girls wear head scarves, flared jeans, platform shoes, Adidas. The boys wear Tommy Hilfiger, fleeces, Fila...
...punks don't often make Broadway Market appearances...