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On another front, a bevy of women’s clubs have begun to assert their presence on the social scene, some presenting themselves as community-building alternatives to the male clubs, and others as their female counterparts. They stress the benefits of single-sex solidarity when it comes to...
Yet what has piqued some library-goers since 1919, irrespective of their faith, was Sargent’s symbolism of the synagogue as a blind old woman—a reference to the medieval convention signifying the failure of Judaism to see the truth of Christianity. By contrast, Sargent portrayed...
The horrors begin shortly after Janet and Brad marry and drive off from their home in Denton, Ohio. When their tire blows out, they trudge through the rain to the nearest shelter—a castle owned by Dr. Frank-N-Furter, a transvestite hosting a convention of aliens from...
The third convention alone has 23,000 words, but much of the recent bickering has centered on these: "Prisoners of war must at all times be protected ... against insults and public curiosity." Rumsfeld said the Iraqi TV and al-Jazeera broadcasts violated that rule, since the Americans, frightened and possibly...
Last week many Americans were suddenly citing the third convention; the NASDAQ said al-Jazeera's "alleged violation" of Geneva was a reason it was booting the network from its broadcast facility. Technically speaking, news outlets aren't signatories to the conventions, so they aren't bound by them. But...