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Violence against women and children is the reality for too many victims of rape, incest, wife-beating, child-abuse, and other forms of inhumanity, some obvious and some more subtle. Thus, the recent appearance of a pair of posters on Harvard bulletin boards and kiosks is particularly upsetting. One, an advertisement for a Leverett House play, announces, "Rape, Incest. Murder. REVENGE." The other, a creation of the opportunes, asks us to "See Boys and Girls in Paine" (it's made to look as if a child had primed...
...least two things now vitiate the play's impact. In 1955, during the heyday of Freudian illumination, when the play first appeared as a one-acter, shortly to be revised and expanded to a two-acter, Eddie's love for his niece possessed shock effect. Incest isn't what it used to be. Furthermore, one doubts whether the current flood of illegal ah'ens cowers before an immigration official as if he had sounded a storm trooper's knock in the night...
...tone of His Honor's 19-page ruling was almost as undignified as the sex-centered Palm Beach divorce trial over which he presided. After listening for 18 days to conflicting tales of adultery, lesbian trysts, incest and drug use, Florida Circuit Court Judge Carl Harper, 55, ruled on the demands by Roxanne Pulitzer, 31, that her husband Peter Pulitzer, 52, pay her a reported $144,000 a year in alimony and child support, give her their $1.5 million estate and custody of their five-year-old twins, Mack and Zack. Terming the demands exorbitant, Harper said they reminded...
...take these things off the shelves," Mobley said, "then we're going to see a lot of things happen, like a drop in rape and a drop in incest...
...same time Bourgeois's imagination has a nasty side, as real acts of exorcism must. The fantasies her art expels into the chaste gallery space have as much to do with incest and cannibalism as with the more usual aesthetic satisfactions of MOMA. The most vivid of them, and the crudest, is a sort of grotto full of pendulous brown stalactites, lumpy and breastlike...