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...simple and obvious reversals of sexual roles: Madame Irma's "visitors" are played as vain effeminates, sexless transvestites who, when gathered together in the last act, remind one of the opening of Macbeth played in drag. Similarly, Irma is conceived as the Madam of an answering service, a nervous dike devoid of femininity and consequent feminine insight. This is supported by the text often, particularly in the dialogue with Carmen, but it annihilates any credibility to her stated relationship with Georges, the chief of police. Genet's contradictions work better set in a world where men are more-or-less...
...earth and rock. It is the world's fifth largest earth-filled dam and has the largest-capacity spillway, discharging 1.2 million cu. ft. of water per second, four times as much as Niagara Falls. Five 36-ft. tunnels drain the river; a subsidiary dike completes a 100 sq.mi. reservoir. Eventually, the powerhouse will hold ten 100,000-kw. generators to supply Pakistan's burgeoning industry...
Moaned Florida's Dante Fascell, one of the bill's managers: "I feel like the man who tried to prevent disaster by putting his finger in the dike-only to have somebody come along...
...standstill. Even Nigeria's universities, traditionally neutral meeting places for members of feuding tribes, have been crippled by the new crisis. Almost all the Ibos at the University of Ibadan in the Yoruba West have retreated to the University of Nsukka in the East. In late December, Dr. Kenneth Dike, head of the University of Ibadan and an Ibo, followed suit, complaining that he lacked "the support" of the community around the university...
...yards apart. But the price of life is constant vigilance, and it is a price that even the best of soldiers sometimes forget to pay. Near Danang recently, a veteran Marine sergeant, who should have known better, tried to pull up an anti-American sign stuck in a paddy dike. Both he and the sign were blown to pieces...