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...fooled, though. The force of this exchange only lasts a few minutes until we're asked to witness a ludicrous closing episode at the French prison where Gallimard has been incarcerated for betraying state secrets. In this scene, Gallimard displays his final transformation from a sexist imperialist into a transvestite performance artist. The inmates seem charmed. But then they--unlike you--don't really have anywhere else...
...According to Liaison, Joyce Wadler's fascinating new biography of the diplomat, the opera singer was able to fold his genitals inside his body, thus giving the naked illusion of femininity.) Hwang spins a phantasm of multiple myopia: a man preposterously blinded by love, a European culture blinkered by imperialist prejudice in its view of the mystic East...
...fascinating new biography of the diplomat, the opera singer was able to fold his genitals inside his body, thus giving the naked illusion of femininity.) From this International Enquirer item, Hwang spun a phantasm of multiple myopia: a man preposterously blinded by love, a European culture blinkered by imperialist prejudice in its view of the mystic East...
...Yeltsin and would-be President Alexander Rutskoi sent conflicting signals to a Syrian delegation that visited Russia to discuss the Middle East not long before last week's crisis in Moscow. "Rutskoi talked like the old communist leaders," says the insider. "He told the Syrians to 'stand up to imperialist aggression' and promised 'the Russians will back you.' But Yeltsin's people told the Syrians to do what the Americans told them...
...issue, for example, the Lampoon spoofed "near-death experiences" with an article recounting the stories of fictional people who avoided being killed. One was "Achmed Mohammed, Age 25." The character had eluded death because he was unable "to drive a truck full of explosives into a barracks full of imperialist United States forces." But, the joke went, "[m]y brother Harouk took the mission...