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...with his married chauffeur and invested in a male brothel. In fact, the shock of Sodom and Gomorrah was not just its homosexuality, but also the classes, nationalities and genders of the participants. Davenport-Hines argues that Sodom and Gomorrah, "the first novel to present human sexuality as a continuum including bisexuality and the homosexual behavior of married men," opened the closet door for all subsequent literary references. The biographer admires Proust's courage, particularly since the pale, sad-eyed Frenchman was almost constantly concerned that he would be publicly humiliated for his preference, as Oscar Wilde had been...
...other services. ”These Ten-Year Plans have really put homelessness on the national agenda,” Thomas said.Gordie M. Calkins, the program manager for Shelter, Inc., an emergency shelter on School Street, said that providers are better coordinating aid efforts.“The continuum of care has very little duplicating of services,” Calkins said. “We’ve streamlined the very limited amounts of money that we can access.” But still, many working to assist the City’s homeless agree that service providers...
...appropriately sparse dialogue. Its lazy passage of time illuminates the characters’ cyclical misery as well. The plot jumps from year to year without the use of intertitles, as if the pain of Jack (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Ennis’ (Heath Ledger) thwarted love exists on a continuum parallel to the emptiness of the Western skylines that dominate the film. If “Brokeback Mountain” says anything about rural America, it shows us that the dusty landscapes are crammed with repression and fear. Ledger, Gyllenhaal, Hathaway, and Dawson’s Creek starlet Michelle Williams...
...What kind of racial issues are you confronting? Are you part of the continuum of hip-hop, what are you doing...
Harvard Square exists out of the time-space continuum...