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WHEN A CRITIC AND FELLOW tippler suggested to Tennessee Williams that he | might be a better playwright if he stayed off the sauce, Williams patted his companion's forearm and with a satisfied smile challenged, "Improve A Streetcar Named Desire." The discussion stopped right there. The years since its debut in 1947 have only intensified the relevance of Streetcar's vision of sexual passion as a force so powerful that the principal characters must all lie to themselves about it. But if Streetcar emphatically belongs back on Broadway, it deserves far better than this starry but mostly wan and torpid...
Says another regular looking at the huge crowd, "It's getting a little full right now. You just say excuse me and when he doesn't move, you throw him one of these." He makes the motion of giving someone a forearm...
...seven photographs in question do have some of pornography's rawness and occasional power to shock. In one picture a man urinates into another man's mouth. In another a man's fist and forearm is seen inserted into a man's rectum. Two images -- a nude boy on a chair and a little girl whose dress is raised in a way that exposes her genitals -- led to charges of illegal use of a minor, though the mothers of the children gave Mapplethorpe permission to take the photographs and the center to display them. "Where would you draw the line...
...former Lesley College student said he was raped by a man who "pushed him through the Science Center and tried to force him into a car," after three men cornered the student in the Science Center men's room. The student says the alleged assailant led him by the forearm and asked him to get into the car, and that only two men cornered him in the restroom. The Crimson also reported that there were differences between the student's description of the alleged attacker and the police description. The student says the descriptions were the same...
When General Wojciech Jaruzelski had spoken and returned to his seat beside George Bush in the Polish Parliament, Bush reached over and patted the Communist boss's forearm. A little later, clustered with some newly chartered Polish Little Leaguers, he scooped up the grinning kids and pulled them close for the ritual team picture...