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...counterpart, lesbian author Kate Millet, would have agreed wholeheartedly; Millet's talk on "Sex and Censorship" frequently played to the crowd with lines such as "the gay shall lead the way...out of the hetero-straitjacket," which provided welcome relief from tense differences...
...everyone, however, was turned on by the sexual plays on language that Millet personally defines as "erotica." There were also moments during the symposium's polylogue when frictional energies generated by deeply-personal differences erupted in unatt ractive scenes of hostility. These were the sort of hairpulling impulses, for example, which led one woman to speculate on Millet's promiscuous habits during youth, and Millet in turn to counter with the charge that her accuser probably beats her own kids--over the issue of child abuse. Friday night's free-for-all with "bawdy Kate", the author of the ground...
...seems worth it. The depot's main building, finished in 1894, is a massive, lovable quirk. The local architect, Theodore Link, was obviously under the influence of Henry Hobson Richardson: rough limestone blocks, big arched doors, Romanesque bulk. But inside and out, he and Louis Millet, the interior decorator, wildly mixed and matched styles. The west wing has its odd Gothic outcroppings, the Grand Hall some rather Moorish nooks and ornament; an intimate dining room seems Viennese; and, of course, the steel-truss roof built to cover trains and tracks is pure 19th century Industrial...
...cinematography by Nestor Almendros is nothing short of spectacular, from the shining fields of grass to the dry, patched clapboard houses. And the scene of Moses and Edna planting cotton seed is as powerful as a Millet painting...
...first night is spent at Tersef, 100 miles north of N'Djamena. Supper is served in a hut of branches and millet straw. Everyone eats from the same dish, though there is little but hard gristle and bone. "We have no ranks," says Abdul Osman, 21. "We are all combatants, we are all volunteers." His job is to teach reading and writing to the troops. After supper he conducts a lesson: "Maman est tres belle .. . Maman a une belle robe . .. Bonjour, maman." Since there are 300 different languages in Chad, French is the lingua franca...