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Director Zoe Mulford struggles with this dilemma in her production. Although she displays some creative and effective ideas, Mulford eventually capitulates to the intimidating power of the Bard's prose, letting the text dominate the actors...

Author: By Margaret H. Gleason, | Title: Hamlet Unable to Sustain Innovation | 4/11/1991 | See Source »

...clash between supporters and opponents of gay rights has produced a frustrating dilemma for me--and probably for a lot of other curious spectators too. As a heterosexual who sympathizes with the plight of gays in America, I am embarrassed by the sophomoric and sometimes downright sadistic campaign against them launched by my fellow right-wingers. At the same time, I am similarly repelled by the antics and outrages of the Gay Left that, I fear, will ultimately doom the entire movement...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Mind Your Manners | 4/9/1991 | See Source »

...dilemma, explains Ratner, is one of public identity...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Images in the Diversity Debacle: Will Gay and Lesbian Recruitment Be the Next Battleground? | 4/8/1991 | See Source »

...unnamed male narrator comes by his stiff upper lip naturally. In his early 50s, he has been a successful physician, and is now a Tory M.P. on the way up. He has a beautiful wife, two talented children; he has, he confesses, "never faced a serious moral dilemma." Then he meets Anna Barton, his son Martyn's new girlfriend: "Just for a moment I had met my sort, another of my species." So has she, evidently, because before long the two are tearing at each other's clothes on a floor in Anna's London house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spring Bouquet of Fiction | 3/25/1991 | See Source »

...last Aug. 1 that the U.S. might send half a million soldiers, sailors and aviators to the Persian Gulf to fight a war against Iraq. But around the Pentagon and the CIA, the question is by no means dismissed out of hand: circumstances can be foreseen in which the dilemma would at least need to be addressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: Operation Steppe Shield? | 3/18/1991 | See Source »

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