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...equally poorly. Anne Hathaway, the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society’s newly beloved Woman of the Year, is somehow both weird and unattractive. Hathaway, whose character moonlights as an unsympathetic accent-swapping phone-sex operator, should have had the opportunity to flex her acting muscles??—as she did in “Havoc” when she loses her top and has group sex with Hispanic gang members, thus shedding her persona as “Princess Diaries” sweetheart. Hathaway can do much better, and so could...
...point of refocus and occasional music as a mood intensifier. All other aspects of the stage and set were empty, giving the performance a raw, bare-bones aesthetic. Just as Shakespeare’s plays are meant to be performed, not merely read, “Namely, Muscles?? asks to be interpreted through movement and dance. Porter seemed to explore the world of the poems naturally and with great pleasure. However, the poet faced greater difficulty in communicating that internal world through her performance. Porter seems to offer the suggestion in “Namely Muscles?...
Imus’s words hurt because they cut to the heart of what these women do, who they are, and what their accomplishments symbolize. Public outrage points more broadly to the scorn female athletes frequently receive from men and women alike for their “gross, big muscles?? which make them “look butch and manly,” as one critic in college once remarked to me of my rowing teammates. Women athletes are still often evaluated by 19th century standards of femininity and fragility, rather than on the basis of their achievements...
...book of humor, it has some serious undertones and in some stories, Rich tries to convey very important messages. In “Mating Throughout History,” Rich makes fun of the way a woman will always choose “a guy with really big muscles?? as opposed to the scrawny guy, but he also tries to show something else.“I think, no matter who you are, there are plusses and minuses to the situation. That’s one of the things that I was trying to do in the book...
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