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During the primaries, Clinton seemed headed for the trash heap. Gennifer Flowers had become a household name, the first round of draft stories dominated the news, and the candidate insisted improbably that he hadn't inhaled. But some of Clinton's closest associates were most disturbed by the fact that during those dark days the candidate played golf at the Little Rock Country Club, which has yet to admit its first black member. "We discussed it all," says a Yale classmate of Clinton's who has supported him ever since. "Bill had privileges at the club because he was Governor...
...first act is set in Victorian colonial Africa and revolves around the sexual tensions disrupting the "perfect" household of Clive and his wife Betty (Brain van Gorder). The casting in this play frequently crosses gender and racial lines, and in the first act this seems to indicate that Clive and his imperialistic patriarchal attempts to "tame" women and the Dark Continent have distorted the true natures of the other characters...
...Harry's relationship with Edward in the first act is nothing but child abuse, and his fling with Joshua, the servant, can be seen as imperialistic exploitation. But these "relationships" are portrayed as merely alternative lifestyles, the gleeful return of the repressed in Clive's oh-so-normal British household...
Peeping out everywhere is Franz Kafka's haunted, haunting face. Kafka is a poster and T-shirt industry. Shining out from the Central European confectionery window frames and snowflake Bohemian crystal: the consumptive's black, intelligent eyes. He is Prague's presiding household god, part of the city's neurotic Shinto...
CAPTION: Income for black households as a percentage of income for white household...