Word: fruits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With "Fruit Cocktail," Tim Miller achieves through performance art what Jane Austen accomplishes in her novels: he tells a lighthearted story with a predictable ending, about ordinary people in ordinary circumstances, yet tells it so ingeniously that one is left dumbfounded, attempting to explain how such common events could form such a profoundly satisfying theatrical experience...
Where Austen places marriage at the center of her novels, "Fruit Cocktail" effectively proposes that sex is, for many, the most vital part of contemporary gay male experience. Miller's piece is a familiar refrain of boyhood discovery, adolescent repression and ultimate sexual release, as he moves from his childhood in Whittier, California, to his backyard autoerotic exploits, to his first sexual encounter with a modern dancer named David. One never tires of hearing stories like this, but the taboos of the dominant sexual order prevent them from being told often enough (Miller's notorious battles with government officials over...
...piece's most compelling and hilarious moments occur as Miller tells of his backyard escapades, using various fruits and vegetables as sex tools. His tribute to zucchini is outrageously funny, performed while bending at the knees, up and down, up and down, while recalling his mother's reaction to her discovery of his exploits. Deeply moving is Miller's ode to his backyard Valencia orange tree, using his body to expel a paroxysm of sexual desire while sucking on an orange. As juice runs from his mouth, working its way down his body, and dropping lusciously to the floor through...
...town was also the home of Fruitlands, a utopian community set up by Christian Transcendentalists who believed that fruit should be the mainstay of an ascetic lifestyle. They also believed all clothing should be of linen and private property abolished. Although the community was an economic failure, the Fruitlands Museums, which teach visitors about the Transcendental movement, are a popular tourist destination...
...chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz and a killer wardrobe. And if his ego ever needs a boost, there are plenty of sycophants around to give in to his demands. Two weeks ago, several hundred of my fellow members of the National Association of Black Journalists meekly permitted Farrakhan's Fruit of Islam to frisk them before they entered the hall where he was speaking--an indignity the Secret Service does not inflict on those who are visiting the President of the U.S. Then they cheered enthusiastically as Farrakhan denounced black reporters who work for the white press as "slaves." Even though...