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When I got to school two weeks ago, I knew I had to come up with creative ways to get my first year of Harvard to count for something, and fast. For peace of mind and soundness of body, I had to get this Core Curriculum monkey off my back. So I decided to petition to get my work on Dorm Crew last spring to count for Core credit...
There wasn't much out there to see. Until the 1976 success of Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, a luminous collection of stories that mixed memoirs about the author's San Francisco girlhood with mystical tales of female warriors and monkey kings, Asian Americans were the invisible men and women in American literature. Even after Kingston's success, a dozen years passed before another Asian-American fiction writer achieved fortune and fame. First-time novelist Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, a loosely connected series of stories about Chinese-American mothers and daughters, sold an astonishing...
KURT VONNEGUT'S MONKEY HOUSE (Showtime, May 15 and 20). Three adaptations of short stories by the sci-fi fabulist. Hardly first-rate Vonnegut (more like second-rate Rod Serling), but more fun than most anything else on TV this month...
...mind. Since they're removing books that haven't been checked out in five years, won't they eventually haul away the volumes of Harry's book collection that haven't been touched for 50? Will his Guttenberg Bible, printed in the year 1450, end up in a monkey cage next to copies of recent dissertations from the Government department...
...general is not naive about his opportunities or the obstacles that await him if he rides into the political battlefield. "There's a great expression I've always believed," Schwarzkopf observes. " 'The higher the monkey gets up the flagpole, the more opportunity he has to show his ass.' Or I should say his rear end." Perhaps even a public desperate for a plainspoken hero will give him some time off to collect his thoughts...