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...that maintain a fullness of personality and an independence of action that is only rarely encountered. Like any immigrants, Mukherjee’s characters find themselves in a new world faced with new problems. However, the issues with which Tara, her husband Bish, and their son Rabi must deal confront many typical Americans, and not just non-natives. Mukherjee develops multiple plots and subplots, which serve to infuse both the protagonists and the supporting actors with a brilliant dynamism...
...remarks, James R. Atlas ’71, the President of the Harvard Advocate Board of Trustees and a former editor of The New York Times Magazine, singled out Rushdie and Kincaid as having to confront their status as outsiders of society peering in, if only to capture and expose this world in their work. But Ashbery, too, deals with themes of estrangement—less from society than from himself—by portraying consciousness as fractured by disparate and contrary forces. From this common world of outsiders and homelessness, journeying and eventual homecoming, the great art of these...
...Impact does not know how to confront these objections. It hides from them, with words like “optional” and “alternative,” which do absolutely nothing to challenge the beauty pageant regime. Had it more courage, Impact would make the absurdity of beauty pageants the center of the show. To allow men to compete, and to encourage them to do so in drag, is only a start...
Impact ought to confront objections head-on by emphasizing how ridiculous beauty pageants are and by over-doing—and, indeed, celebrating—the drag. After all, women in a standard beauty pageant are themselves in a kind of drag. Beneath makeup, stuffing and hairspray, how much of the person on stage really remains...
...prospect of a cease-fire has forced Arafat and Sharon to confront some uncomfortable strategic dilemmas. Sharon lifted travel restrictions on Arafat and dropped his demand for seven days of quiet before cease-fire talks. Arafat made it a little easier for the Israeli leader by arresting the last key suspect in the slaying of an Israeli cabinet minister...