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Inside every gay man, the drag queen's fantasy credo goes, there's a beautiful woman just dying to accessorize. Take Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze), the regal doyenne in To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar. Vida is a Victoria among drag queens; she could be the perfect ad for sisterhood out of a 1947 Good Housekeeping. And Swayze, maintaining equipoise between camp and bathos, is every inch a lady...
...Wong Foo (whose unpunctuated title means...oh, nothing very much) has its larkish side, when the male stars are doing their struts and their dish. But it soon goes sappily didactic. Director Beeban Kidron and scripter Douglas Carter Beane want you to believe that the drag queen, because he is at ease with his ersatz sexuality, is a true liberator: he can teach feminism to women and manners to men, in this awful place called Middle America. The movie has its own fantasy credo: that heterosexuals are the real objects of pity and scorn. And gay men? Poor them...
...think Dr. Goh made good points about education and market forces," said Jan Foo '94, "although he was very silent about the role of politics in government...
Some of the house's features are the unique Gold Room adjacent to the dining hall, large sculptures, a pipe organ and a swimming pool (used primarily for parties). Also, a large golden gong and a pair of greenish Foo dogs adorn the dining hall. The house also boasts two hand-letter printing presses...
Adams House used their funds toward the purchase of street hockey equipment, a slide, a CD player and two "Foo dogs"-replicas of ancient Oriental sculptures. The $700 pair of dogs will be displayed on special occasions, such as President Neil L. Rudenstine's visit there next week, according to House Committee Chair David L. McMahon...