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...CURTAIN...
...revolves around the process of painstakingly constructing, dismantling, and constructing again the identities that we present for public consumption via facebook.com and MySpace. For many, the motivation seems to be to create an identity that appears more complex, serious, or just more likable than the real person behind the curtain. After all, when people quote John Stuart Mill in their profiles, list “The Art of War” as one of their favorite books, or oh-so-subtly write things like, “I’m a very complex person,” in their...
...some viewers, MASH was an exercise less in Olympian misanthropy than in leering misognyny, especially in its twitting of the prim Hot Lips Houlihan as a secret sexpot worthy of being exposed before the entire company as she took a shower. The curtain falls, Hot Lips is revealed naked, the medics applaud at their practical joke and feminism takes a nasty hit. (I could name one young bride who, after storming out of a screening room at the end of that shower scene, literally went home to her mother, telling her husband, "I don't want to live with someone...
...fuck-up” sister, whose unplanned pregnancy is one of the cerebral screws Lindsay-Abaire adds to the play. He practically hands Carr one of the show’s most brilliantly twisted scenes (which he is ballsy enough to place just after the curtain opens), in which Izzy tells Becca the she is pregnant even as the latter folds her son’s old clothes for Goodwill. But Carr manages to fumble, not at all emphasizing the cruelty in the exchange, and the audience hardly realizes the scene’s maudlin undercurrent before it ends. While...
...even Cambridge. Scholars, feminists, and Muslims have grappled with the necessity and advantages of veiling, but I had never been forced to truly consider the issue in a personal light until this summer. The Arabic hijab, which literally means “veil,” “curtain,” or “partition,” refers both to the covering itself and the practice of decent living associated with the Muslim belief that modesty is venerable in all facets of life. Although the ideal is a standard to which both men and women...