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...knew going out there that it would be hard to even get one game," said sophomore co-captain Grace Bloodwell. "The games were really meant to teach us about our strengths and what we needed to work on. Progress was made...
...what point can you say that gays have gone mainstream? When Will & Grace hits the top 20? When Ally kisses a girl? When ABC airs a Judy Garland mini-series? For our money, it's when a network airs a gay-straight odd-couple sitcom that's not just bad, but boringly so. Batting for the gays, Jason Bateman is adequate as a poor man's Eric McCormack, but Danny Nucci plays a straight Italian stereotype who's like Joey from Friends' dumber brother. Add predictable storylines (I think my roomie has a crush...
Other shorts in the program included Dog Days and Humpty Dumpty Land, both of which dealt with the terrors of present-day war, the former from the civilian point of view, the latter through the eyes of a half-sane soldier. Humpty Dumpty Land has moments of surprising grace, handling reds and greens with visual and symbolic skill, and creating an unnerving atmosphere largely around water: the movements of tides, the lazy formation of tiny pools, drip by drip and the glassy surfaces of puddles that dimly reflect a prone man’s bloodied head. Dog Days, an uncomfortably...
...sudden metamorphosis from a believer of apartheid to a "peacemaker" taints that very word, for I think of "peacemakers" as people filled with grace, character and social conscience. Had de Klerk addressed the fact that those who benefited from apartheid continue to live a relatively privileged life, protected by the wealth and property amassed during the years of apartheid law, while those who suffered under that law continue to live in squalor, destitute and unemployed, I would have been more open to his words...
...Eminem was the least of the squalor. He has a smart high school sophomore's dark literacy and the good grace to attempt maneuvers of dissociation (you see, it's not me who's crazy and violent but the voices I channel from others in our sick society). He rapped a number purporting to be made up of menacing messages from a nutcase fan, working in counterpoint with Elton John, a benevolent marshmallow in a clown suit, still exhaling faux poetics in the "Candle in the Wind" mode. Watching Eminem's body English, I thought of the Japanese expression henna...