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From my perspective this means taking a look at Beloved without the backdrop of the feminist and traditionalist movements. The focus is shifted on how I, as a woman, love--how I connect, how I feel, how I value myself, how I see the world...
...want to make our representatives listen to us, we have to hit them with weapons they understand. Unresponsive politicians would learn quickly that ignoring constituents with cameras, voices and energy does not pay. This tactic forces our politicians, who are widely perceived as disconnected to citizens, to connect or be burned...
...this was hardly the case, for the peoplewere not here to dance the night away--they werehere, as one man said, "to connect." The dance,this whole scene, was strictly a means to anend--finding someone. It was a particularlyawkward means of overcoming loneliness...
Steinem: Throughout the 1970s, the movement was more consciousness raising in the classic sense. People were enunciating new issues. There were speakouts and demonstrations. That still goes on, but now that we have majority support, we're ready for institutional change. Women are beginning to connect our everyday lives to changing work patterns and even the government. It's a big leap to think that what happens to you every day -- in the secretarial pool, at the shopping center -- has anything to do with who is in the Senate or the White House. The connection is just beginning...
Frankie (Victoria Wei) and Johnny (David Ardell), waitress and cook at the same diner, are two lonely souls attempting to connect. The plot of many plays about relationships depends upon increasing sexual tension. Instead, this one focuses upon post-sexual tension. After the initial consummation of their first date, the two lovers spend the rest of the night exploring what Johnny calls "the disparity of human relations." Johnny proposes marriage, while Frankie attempts to kick him out of her apartment. Witty humor punctuates the fluctuation between the anger and tenderness...