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...Wilson (Talley's Folly, Burn This) has opened REDWOOD CURTAIN, a would-be poetic musing on ecology, Vietnam, capitalism and multicultural heritage. If you think something is deeply sick in the national soul, then the play, for all its philosophical incoherence and melodrama (about a Vietnamese immigrant seeking her ex-G.I. father), may speak to you. If you live in the world most Americans inhabit, you will probably find it windy, vacant, awkwardly staged and ineptly acted, except by the superb Debra Monk as the girl's sardonic aunt...
...weeks, the great battle "seemed almost anticlimactic," recalls Kathleen Frost, who as a clerk typed up some of the D-day orders. Today the beaches, lanes and fields of southern England are quiet again, ever-present plaques the prime mementos of the frenzied activity of 40 years ago. American ex-G.I.s sometimes visit, walk those familiar streets, stay the night. But the atmosphere cannot be recreated: the girls, the buddies, the excitement, all are gone. The old soldiers take solace in memory, and in the wonderful glow of victory...
...ex-G.I.'s PTSD may not show up for years. When it does, notes Psychologist John Wilson, there is usually some precipitating stress, like divorce or loss of job. Occasionally, says Wilson, who has aided the defense in 16 PTSD cases, the veteran responds with combat instincts, sometimes to the extent of donning fatigues and grabbing a rifle...
Nearly 30 years ago, an ex-G.I. from The Bronx journeyed to Copenhagen to become blond Christine Jorgensen. Ever since, sex-change operations have been performed routinely as a cure for serious sexual identity problems. Males were treated with hormones that encouraged loss of facial hair and growth of breasts; subsequent surgery transformed the scrotum and penis into a functioning vagina. In females, hormones were given to develop masculine characteristics, followed by the implantation of an artificial phallus...
...community thrown into turmoil over its schools sprouted in 1947 in a former potato field. Well suited and priced for ex-G.I.s, Levittown soon became synonymous with instant and inexpensive suburban living: a home of one's own, a plot of land, no big city problems, no industry. Levittown also became a symbol of cookie-cutter suburban sameness (immortalized by Pete Seeger in a song about "little boxes made of ticky-tacky...