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...Chloe Aaron, the WNYC executive who decided to drop the program, condemns the film because it "makes no mention of how the Jews got to Israel, no mention of the Holocaust, no mention of how the Palestinians treated the Jews nor how Arabs treated the Palestinians." But Trout is not responsible for reporting what happened in the past here; she is just documenting a side of the present situation...
...show will be the first this year in a series of student exhibitions sponsored by Triptych, an undergraduate group that gained formal status this year. Other topics will include music and fiction reading, said Chloe A. Breyer '91, who gathered the artwork for tonight's show...
...Chloe and Hugh do eventually meet and make love, but this romantic moment quickly pales beside other, pressing concerns. The hospital administrator assumes that Chloe is a spy. A weekend jaunt to a nearby cave yields a dying man and then, in short order, a corpse for which none of the local authorities will accept responsibility. Chloe begins to suspect Hugh of working for the CIA, and numerous new acquaintances of being informers for SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. She rashly hands over her passport to an Iranian woman who wants to break out of her arranged marriage...
...Doctor's Wayward Wife in Iran, and been far more marketable in the bargain. But Johnson, 52, an English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a collaborator with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of The Shining, has found a middle ground between sensationalism and high seriousness. Chloe Fowler's good intentions provide a fascinating vantage point for the clash of irreconcilable cultures. She comes, unprepared, to a strange place, meaning no harm, believing that "life underneath is everywhere similar" and that "the Iranians are like...
...wrong, and she is often portrayed as preposterously silly and stupid. In creating such a selfish, flawed heroine, Johnson took a calculated risk: readers might not be able to see themselves and their prejudices through Chloe and make the appropriate adjustments toward the truth. The enterprise will leave some unsatisfied. Persian Nights is neither a bodice ripper nor a + treatise on the Iranian revolution, but an intriguing compromise: an attempt to show major upheavals as a progress of small shocks...