Word: dragging
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Matthew Johnson's editorial "Time to Put Women in Drag, Too" (Opinion, Dec. 10) is both historically inaccurate and fundamentally misrepresentative. We do not want to belabor his lack of research, but if he wishes to open a dialogue about the status of the Pudding show, as he claims, he should have contacted someone on our board in order to get his facts straight...
...Time to Put Women in Drag, Too" (Opnion, Dec. 10): I agree with Matthew Johnson that it is a shame women are unable to participate in a show that integrates undergraduate theatrical work with professionals in the field. As Matthew Johnson noted, the Visiting Director's Project (VDP) through the Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) only happens once every four semesters, as opposed to the Hasty Pudding The articals annual show. Additionally, the VDP along with the rest of the shows produced through the HRDC, is not privy to the enormous budget that the Hasty Pudding is so privileged...
Defenders of the Pudding frequently make the mistake of claiming an audience finds males in drag funny, but not females in drag. The humor arises from the supposed "lowering" of the male and from a ritualized disgust with male-male love. Examples of these prejudices abound in recent scripts, as do examples of racial prejudice, unshakably welded to sexist and homophobic discourse...
Savoring the last drag of his cigarette, Josh Randall, a stocky 17-year-old Miami high school senior, nonchalantly flicked the butt to the curb. As he headed back inside the mall, four undercover police officers wearing Miami Dolphins T shirts bailed out of a black sedan with tinted windows. They wrote the teen a citation to appear in court, then ordered him to hold still while they snapped his mug shot. The charge? Being a minor in possession of one Marlboro cigarette...
...SICKNESS, HEALTH AND DRAG...