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Though the musical is inferior in some ways to the movie-its plot line is less plausible, for one thing-Fierstein has improved it in other ways, making the two leads more human, more substantial and, finally, more interesting than they were in either the film or the play. "We're showing that marriage, commitment, family, don't have to belong to heterosexuals," he says. "We decided early on that our greatest enemy would be the tendency to hide, to avoid being honest. If a gay show is a hit and doesn't make a statement, what...
...Japanese women-urbanized, educated, middle class and seeking to reconcile traditional identities with present realities-sound like American women of ten years ago. The echoes from across the Pacific are recognizable, considering that until the 1860s Japan was a feudal patriarchy in which the harshness of women's inferior status was unrelieved by such Western niceties as the chivalric code. Until World War II women bowed to the authority of father, husband and son. Today, they bow for the same reasons that they take weekly lessons in wearing kimonos: out of attachment to cultural graces...
Many farmers, however, are piqued with PIK. They cite poor administration, the possibility of getting paid with inferior grain and a timetable that sometimes forces farmers to sell at deflated prices. "The biggest concern I have is the quality of corn they are shipping in," says Alabama Farmer Bill Sanders. "Some of it is as much as two or three years old. I may have to buy hogs...
...race was over by 1956. IBM had won a staggering 85% of the U.S. computer market, even though its machines were considered to be technically inferior to Univac...
While not particularly new, the findings hit a nerve among parents who are increasingly concerned that their children are receiving an inadequate education and, in a depressing reversal of the traditional American pattern, an education inferior to their own. "It came at the right time, under the right auspices," says Jack Peltason, president of the American Council on Education. "It reconfirmed what a lot of people were saying...