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...married one would not seem startling. Indeed, his equally raw Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love played off-Broadway for months in 1991. But as the crusaders of the culture wars point out, there is more to America than its coastal metropolises. In Cincinnati, where Oh! Calcutta! was shut down briefly in 1974, where a museum was prosecuted in 1990 for displaying the late Robert Mapplethorpe's photographs, and where an antigay ordinance was enacted last November, the play is potentially shocking -- so much so that Ensemble Theatre, which commissioned the world premiere, voted at one point...
...three times starting on Nov. 20 but had allowed its field workers to be turned away at the door; now it was investigating its own investigation. At a prayer breakfast last week with Mother Teresa, President Clinton cited headlines about the tragedy and wondered aloud: "Not in Calcutta but Chicago...
...Calcutta remark was grimly amusing to Alex Kotlowitz, who wrote There Are No Children Here, the 1991 best seller about two children in a Chicago housing project. Kotlowitz notes that Mother Teresa has visited Chicago's underclass -- and was honestly shocked. "We're talking about second and third generations of children growing in communities like this. It's breaking the spiritual back of the people," he says. And each time that particular wheel is rediscovered, he notes, "we say, 'Oh, my God.' And then nothing is done...
What is wrong with professional basketball? Everyone seems to have an explanation. From the Pope in Rome to Mother Teresa in Calcutta, everyone's got an answer...
...next winner: Mother Teresa. Miss Teresa, according to her bio, has served the poor in Calcutta for more than 40 years. It's strange to think that these conservatives could muster up the courage to applaud someone who has given her life to helping people systematically oppressed by an unjust economic and political system. But the Council was apparently willing to overlook that indiscretion and praise her for being a humble, selfless, obedient woman...