Word: jersey
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...sounds sensible enough for a party with a pro-life plank in its platform, but G.O.P. leaders are worried that the resolution would set a precedent for imposing litmus tests on its candidates. It would be especially damaging to the G.O.P. in the Northeast, where pro-choicers like New Jersey Governor Christine Whitman, who vetoed a partial-birth abortion ban, are already struggling to be heard over the party's dominant wing of Southern conservatives. Concerned that the resolution might pass, R.N.C. chairman Jim Nicholson took the unusual step last week of publicly urging committee members to vote no. Quoting...
Even without the upcoming tour, Morrison's life seems hectic. She rents an apartment near Princeton University in New Jersey, where since 1989 she has held a university chair in the humanities; another apartment in lower Manhattan; and a stone house in Rockland County, N.Y. Plus, she is having rebuilt the house she owned on the Hudson River just north of New York City, which burned to the ground on Christmas Day 1993. Three residences? Or four, counting the house in progress? "I was a child of the Depression," she shrugs and laughs. "I have bad dreams about eviction...
...contemporary Hoboken, New Jersey, the play opens as Julie (Edith H. Bishop '00) confesses her longtime obsession with computers and technology to friend and neighbor Claire (Claire E. Farley '01). With little experience in high school and even less self-confidence, Julie explains that she fears her own stupidity and inability to succeed. Though Claire initially lets her know that school doesn't have to be her thing, Julie eventually agrees to join her for night classes at a local community college. Telling neither her husband or her children, Julie quietly sets out on her efforts to redirect her life...
Both Julie's son, Frank (Aaron D. Goldberg '01) and daughter Lisa first appear as caricatures and foils to her emotional depth and intensity. Through the first quarter of the production, their strong New Jersey accents and exaggerated expressions work well as part of the alienating background Julie fights against. Rabbit especially plays the hyperbolic daughter masterfully, serving as a curious specimen of the suburban wasteland...
...American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin) The title is ironic--a Philip Roth specialty. There is precious little rural peace and harmony in this scorching novel about a prosperous New Jersey couple whose good life is destroyed when their daughter becomes a '60s terrorist. In Roth's earlier novels, parents tended toward the comic and repressive. Not here. The author renders the Job-like suffering of a father and mother over a lost child with characteristic emotional force and verbal energy...