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More than a century after Charles Dickens' pageant of nameless benefactors, twists of narrative, and startling revelations, Journalist David Leitch, 45, appears with a document that ratifies the conventions of the Victorian novel. In the first volume of his autobiography, God Stand Up for Bastards (1973), Leitch recalled his adoptive parents and the mysterious couple who secretly and illegally relinquished their nine-day-old infant. "This title might seem like a calculated insult to my mother," he began. "In a way it is. But I have a sneaking hunch--and hope--that hard words may entice...
...many times, it's been the other way around," Coach Cleary said, recalling boyhood days as he waited anxiously outside the trainer's room for his mother to emerge. But come Saturday, the elder Cleary was back in the stands, and the pageant rolled...
...John Guare's moving, irreverent farce, which won the 1970 New York Drama Critics Circle prize, are awaiting the arrival of Pope Paul VI in New York City in 1965. Awestruck more by his temporal majesty than his spiritual inspiration, they try to become a part of the pageant by seeing him, seeking a blessing or, in one case, attempting to blow him up. At the same time that the Pope is visiting, Movie Director Billy Einhorn passes through his old neighborhood, and most of the Pope watchers also try to solicit Einhorn's attention; for these hungering egos...
...something is missing. Why should I, as a man, change my attitudes? How can I? Vanessa Williams was a sex object before the Penthouse pictures were published, even before she entered the Miss America pageant, at least to the men who passed her on the street. Art is objectification; looking is objectification. We categorize and stereotype all the time. It's the way the mind works...
...while the pageant went on, so did the basketball game...