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...another two weeks passed before State's in-house security service was called in. The congressional committees that monitor intelligence (and which by law must be informed of potential espionage) were only notified in mid-April. "Security is synonymous with the conduct of an effective foreign policy," says Benjamin Gilman, chairman of the House International Relations Committee. "This serious lapse calls that into question...
...Rebecca Gilman's new play, Boy Gets Girl, having its premiere at Chicago's Goodman Theatre, eases us so skillfully into an utterly recognizable world--Theresa is a single magazine editor whose (largely arid) love life is the object of curiosity to friends and co-workers alike--that its unraveling grabs us with special power. Tony, the good-looking but rather clueless date, won't stop calling. He shows up unannounced in her office. There are signs he's watching her apartment. Soon Theresa has a stalker on her hands. And we have one of the finest, most disturbing American...
...Gilman, 35, an Alabama native who now lives in Chicago, has been quietly assembling an impressive body of work. Spinning into Butter, about the ramifications of a racist incident on a college campus, had a successful run at the Goodman last year. Her earlier play The Glory of Living, a shockingly deadpan portrait of a teenage girl who helps her husband abduct and kill young women, was produced at London's Royal Court Theatre early last year and won Gilman the Evening Standard award for most promising playwright. Yet because none of her work has been seen in New York...
...Gilman has a tragic vision of a society in which men and women cannot see each other as human beings. Yet her social comment grows organically out of credible, unexpected characters: the co-worker who offers Theresa comfort but also sees material for a story; the crass but oddly sympathetic porno filmmaker whom Theresa interviews for an article. Boy Gets Girl grasps at big ideas, but reaches the heart and the head with equal force...
...have spent so much of the past millennium dodging women by enlisting in armies, monasteries and all-male guilds and professions. Up until the past half-century, women only fantasized about their version of the same: a utopia like the one described by 19th century feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, where women would lead placidly sexless lives and reproduce by parthenogenesis. But a real separation began to look feasible about 50 years ago. With the invention of TV dinners and drip-dry shirts, for the first time the average man became capable of feeding and dressing himself. Sensing their increasing dispensability...