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...comes to save Mallory. The entire episode is packaged as a sitcom fully equipped with fake, plastic decor creating a surreal aura reinforced by track laughter. This seems acceptable enough. Yet Stone takes what could have been a clever idea and pretentiously exploits it beyond meaning. The modern-day knight arrives enrobed in his bloody butcher shop apron carrying 50 pounds of raw meat. His scantily-clad damsel in distress comes down the stairs, their eyes meet and he is determined to help her escape the wiles of her abusive parents. After Mallory's father, played by Rodney Danger field...
...elsewhere. In March 1993 a law banning many kinds of discrimination -- including that against gays -- went into effect in Miami Beach, where gay investors have played a key role in the resurgence of the South Beach area. Greg Baldwin, a gay partner in Florida's largest law firm, Holland & Knight, spearheaded the drive for the ordinance. Says Baldwin: "We were very careful. We weren't screaming and yelling and alienating. That wouldn't have helped us achieve our goal." Instead, Miami Beach's gay leaders spent a year and a half working to elect supportive politicians, then consulting everyone -- even...
...Cumference pre-vailed--but onlyafter Queen Radcliffe broke a lengthy silence inorder to tell the king to "take back the knight...
...White Knight for Health Care...
...years from now, very few of the students who have taken Chivalric Romances (Literature and Arts A-13) will remember that the Green Knight was really Bertilak in disguise; what they may recall, however, is what we learned about the unstable nature of gender identities at all moments of human history, or about the influence of history on literature, then...