Word: caste
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even considering the enormous complexity of the play's issues and personae, Walker chose to cast mostly undergraduates. "In many ways professional actors are less interesting than student actors, particularly Harvard actors." Walker says she looked to local professionals only for the roles of older men--Cadmus and Tiresias, who ought to be physically convincing...
...small-town high school teacher (Kevin Klive) whose life turns upside down when he's declared gay by a former student-turned-star (Matt Dillon) constitutes Hollywood's own coming-out comedy. It's therefore a bland comedy that ends up reinforcing, not puncturing, gay stereotypes, and squanders a cast that includes Joan Cusack, Tom Selleck, Debbie Reynolds and Bob Newhart. But Kline manages to rise above the plodding humor, as in his show-stopping dance scenes, and Selleck is terrifically funny as the sleazy, sardonic, faintly Mephistophelean tabloid reporter who dogs his footsteps. --Lynn...
...David Wolf, an American astronaut aboard the Russian space station Mir, on a Texas law passed in June which allows registered voters to cast ballots from space. Wolf will transmit his vote via e-mail, and a Board of Elections worker will punch a ballot by hand with the astronaut's choices...
...African American. Many come from homes that do not contain a single book. For 10 minutes a day, Cox does exercises that develop phonemic awareness. She goes around and around the class, sounding words out, breaking them into phonemes, then reassembling, or "blending," them. "Cuh-ast," she says, "cast. Fuh-ill, fill." And how well are Cox's pupils learning to read and write? Earlier, one named Denise stood at the blackboard: "I like the pink flamingo..." she wrote. "Very good," said Cox. But Denise was not finished: "...because it has a long neck and it is pink." Only...
...first I didn't want to go to Washington with the Promise Keepers. But my wife asked me to go. On a chartered bus with 30 other guys, I learned that many of their wives, sisters and mothers-in-law wanted them to attend. When feminists cast aspersions about "male supremacy" on the Promise Keepers, please keep in mind that it is, in a real sense, a women's movement as well. Women hope that when their men return home, they will be more attentive to their needs and better able to love their families. I know I was. PAUL...