Word: genet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...media event with flowing blood and absurdist overtones. The aging Beat poet Allen Ginsberg chanted om in Lincoln Park. Jean Genet, the French homosexual playwright and ex-convict, wrote titillated prose about how attractive and powerful the cops' thighs were. Abbie Hoffman developed a cordial relationship with the plainclothes policemen assigned to tail him everywhere, but he shook them sometimes and spirited around town in a score of disguises...
...exhibit of radiator-lamps created by local artist Peter Houk is currently on display in the basement lounge. Mark R. Prascak '89, another Adams House resident, plans to stage "The Mesozoic Maids", his Flinstonian adaption of Jean Genet's play "The Maids" in December...
...general schizophrenia. Lee's benefactor and later his lover, Lillian, is presumably a serious proponent of Lee's talent. The first time we see her, however, the main focus is her exposed cleavage which jiggles while she applauds. When Lillian discovers that Umstetter has lifted his masterpiece from Jean Genet's Deathwatch, she couldn't care less. After all, she's the food and drama critic. The screenwriters make her a middle-aged Barbie Doll, and raise the role above its flimsiness...
...staged plays by Samuel Beckett, Pirandello, Genet and Robert Wilson. It has also premiered plays by younger dramatists, such as Christopher Durang and Don DeLillo...
...Genet spent most of his 20s in jail on charges of theft, prostitution and related crimes. There, on strips of brown wrapping paper, he composed a long poem about a homosexual murderer, then a novel about a male prostitute, Our Lady of the Flowers (1943). Scandalized, the eminent critic Paul Valery declared, "This must be burned." Others strongly disagreed. In 1948, when Genet faced a life term as a repeat offender, Sartre, Andre Gide, Paul Claudel, Jean Cocteau and other literati circulated a petition protesting the sentence. It won Genet a presidential pardon...