Word: chauvinistic
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...from comedy to tragedy and back again--she says she doesn't really believe in the distinction anyway--pausing in between for a disquisition on the biology of the trilobite (a prehistoric creepy-crawly), an expert demolition of literary journalists (no offense taken) and an angry letter to a chauvinist academic...
...intend no ethnic slurs. I mean to suggest that chauvinist exhibitions become, themselves, a form of ethnic slur; Americans blaring pride in their origins somehow manage to insult themselves, to proclaim the ugliest stereotypes. We may be a nation of immigrants, but if you spike the punchbowl with too much booze and consequent stupidity, the results tend to encourage, in other Americans, feelings of covert ethnic loathing. We need to find more civilized ethnic displays...
...wish I could say that the actors did as best they could with the undeveloped material they were given. Unfortunately, they seemed to exacerbate the situation. Joe Nuccio '01 as Mike yells and jumps around so much that even potentially funny speeches become annoying. His chauvinist roommate Dick (Josh Glassman '02), who is written as suddenly developing feelings near the end of the play, comes across as static as Mike is irritatng. In general, Glassman seems to have a poor grasp of his character. Dick seems more like a modern Middlebury student wearing tie-die over his J. Crew than...
...Bengali chauvinist in me got a thrill: "This is Peter Jennings, tonight live from Calcutta." For the first and only time in my life, the great city I was born and raised in hit the big time. Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously "dying" for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world "another Calcutta." And why were the American media in Calcutta? For the funeral of an 87-year-old Albanian immigrant...
...Feminism freed women from the confines of the home and set them loose to fix the world made faulty by men. Ironically, somewhere along the way, being feminine became evil. We have been taught that to infiltrate the ranks of chauvinist men, women must be like them. The pursuit of beauty, which separated (and still separates) the sexes, now means selling out. Which leads to Confession 2: I like to look pretty. I gleefully wear short skirts and tank tops, the blow-dryer and lash curler are my friends and I spend way too much time on my cuticles...