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...Thief's Journal was no sunny gay poet like Walt Whitman. When he celebrated himself, it was a tangle of paradoxes he pointed to. His chief delight was his own abjection. His notion of Utopia was a cellblock of masters and servants, preferably locked in a bear hug. He left little record of how his novels, written mostly in prison, developed. Though White doesn't penetrate all Genet's mysteries -- such as how a foster child who spent much of his adolescence in a reformatory became one of the supreme stylists in French literature -- he lays out clearly how Genet...
Instead, he quickly put his own thoughts behind him, looked up at the girl and smiled back. "Come here, honey," he said softly. "Gimme a hug...
...There has got to be someone left in Harvard Square to buy this pesky paper!!!" His voice echoes frustration. He tries another tactic: "Free hug with every paper," he flashes that charming smile. "You get bored," he explains, "You've got to say something interesting." Lowering his voice he continues, "you can't look homeless, or sound pathetic. Some people just say the same thing over and over `Spare Change, Spare Change...Help the homeless help themselves." He shakes his head in disgust...
Kevin Murphy was more conciliatory, saying that the two candies serve different functions. "For a quick and dirty sugar rush, go for the Kiss. For something higher in the realm of chocolate you'll want the Hug...
...this is no feminist treatise. It's a bigOliver Stone blockbuster hellbent on reducing itsaudience to tears. The soundtrack soars (well, theJanus theater had a few problems with it, but itwould have soared...) as characters cry, hug orglow with confidence. My only qualm with "The JoyLuck Club" was a moment of silence near the end.The entire audience could be heard snifflingduring this brief break, and I couldn't help butthink that Wang and Stone had engineered it justso that we could all report to our friends,"Everybody cried...you must...