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TELEVISION HBO recounts the history of the AIDS epidemic, gingerly. BOOKS Smilla's Sense of Snow is a riveting thriller set in Denmark and Greenland. Scott Smith's first novel, A Simple Plan, needs work. Willie Morris goes golly-gee in his memoir, New York Days. CINEMA True Romance is true carnage. MUSIC A cheap shot at the underclass mars an appealing new album by Garth Brooks...
...Wolfe. Not the white-suited dandy who lit a bonfire under the vanities, but the big lug from Asheville, North Carolina, who said you can't go home again. Symptoms of the disease are truly terrible: a bloviation of the prose, with cliches clanging at irregular intervals; a golly-gee nostalgia for the glitz of Manhattan when one was , young, yearning and oh-so-talented; and, for a few, an incurable lust to strew names like sunflower seeds...
Inside Edge Publisher Aaron Shapiro '94 says misogyny charges arise because students here tend toward a kind of ideological trigger-happiness. "People look at the cover and they say, 'gee, a magazine for men, it must be bad--and then they don't actually read...
This is also a real, one-ring circus, with acrobats, a juggler, a high-wire tiptoer. And no animal acts; that would be redundant, given all the exhibitions of gazelle grace and leonine strength. Le Cirque evokes the three best responses from a circus audience: "Gee, that clown's funny!" (when Rene Bazinet, a talking mime, gets caught in a bathroom that becomes an aquarium); "Hey, the human body can't do that!" (when one man climbs a Chinese pole on sheer wrist power or descends using only his thighs); and "Ooooh, that's beautiful!" (when four aerialists...
...then, awkwardly and unexpectedly, with Rothenberg's gee-gees leading the field, figures started recolonizing the bare stage. Partly they did so in response to performance art, which had absorbed the body images that abstraction had driven out of painting. (Trained as a dancer, Rothenberg tried performance herself in the early '70s.) Partly it was just out of inarticulate need -- the need to reconnect with the world, through self-description that didn't exclude pathos. Auping is certainly right in seeing the horses as disguised self-portraits, or at any rate as "presences" that stood in for human presence...