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...glamorous mirror of society. Growing up, we all find ourselves, in part, by finding aspects of ourselves onscreen. Gays didn't. "You feel like a ghost," essayist Susie Bright (author of Sexwise) says in The Celluloid Closet, "a ghost that nobody believes in." So gays went looking for kinship in any movie character who was artistic, flamboyant, wounded. They still do, and some of the subtextual readings in The Celluloid Closet result in eyestrain. "We know the Sal Mineo character in Rebel Without a Cause is gay," asserts British film historian Richard Dyer, "partly because he has a picture...
...limit class size and prevent Core lotteries by allowing increased student choice. As the rules stand, however, there is an extraordinarily limited selection of courses to fill requirements in many of the Core areas. Four courses were, in fact, lotteried last week: Foreign Cultures 62: "Chinese Marriage, Family and Kinship;" Literature and Arts A-18: "Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood;" Literature and Arts B-51: "First Nights;" and Science B-29: "Human Behavioral Biology." Despite the gigantic size of these classes, more students want to take them than can possibly be accommodated--due to the constraints...
Literature and Arts A-18, "Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood"; Science B-29, "Human Behavioral Biology"; Foreign Cultures 62, "Chinese Marriage, Family and Kinship" and Literature and Arts B-51, "First Nights" were lotteried...
Racing Demon, which premiered in London in 1990, is part of a Hare trilogy that includes Murmuring Judges, which scrutinizes England's legal system, and The Absence of War, examining its politics. If the entire venture has something of an old-fashioned feel--a kinship with those "condition of England" novels of Wells, Galsworthy, Forster--that's probably all right with Hare, 48. With these plays (and others, such as Plenty and Map of the World), he has embraced a theater of social and moral probing. By frequently setting one character to debating another (about the ordination of women, declining...
Nevertheless, readers seem to be responding. Mary Karr, whose chronicle of family chaos in East Texas, The Liars' Club (Viking; 320 pages; $22.95), was a surprise best seller earlier this year, discovered an "incredible kinship" with audiences on a tour of public readings from her book. "They were people from every walk of American life--bankers, professors, laborers, blacks, whites, literates and illiterates. Afterward they came up to the stage to tell me about childhoods far worse than mine, or some terrible family secret and how they were able to go on living and loving despite it. I learned that...