Word: minding
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...downtown theater district had, by the 1960s, devolved into “The Combat Zone”—a red light district of adult entertianment known for the sort of smutty striptease taht the world “burlesque” has been known to bring to mind. With the very popular holiday burlesque “The Slutcracker” now selling out shows at the Somerville Theatre and burlesque performances popping up around the area—increasingly with the support of the American Repertory Theatre’s Club Oberon—the comedic performance...
...happened since. Instead of everything that was happening now.” The confusion as to what comprises national identity reflects the complexity of what determines sexual identity. Each have simple answers—citizenship and genitalia—that pose more questions—assimilation and the gendered mind. Though the Bracelets derive their certainty and power from their families’ past, Cal finds little consolation and few answers in his own warped past...
While the results may seem bleak, SteelFisher stressed that “it’s important to keep in mind that this poll was from two weeks ago,” and that “the experience has probably changed in the last two weeks...
Rosero’s choice of name for his protagonist puts us in mind of another famous first-person narrator and survivor of catastrophe: Herman Melville’s Ishmael, who lives to tell the tale in “Moby Dick.” Melville’s epilogue is taken from the book of Job: “And I only am escaped alone to tell thee.” Like Job, Rosero’s Ismael has no part in the processes governing the destruction of his life but is forced to take up the challenge...
...Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,” his second, was a deeply-felt emotional mosaic about the resonance between the 9/11 attacks and the Dresden firebombings. Foer’s first work of nonfiction, “Eating Animals,” has a different sort of trauma in mind: the suffering inflicted on livestock by the American meat industry...