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...This notion of two against the world often recurs in the Japanese films that have won international acclaim. Nagisa Oshima's 1976 In the Realm of the Senses was banned and cheered for its explicit portrayal of a sadomasochistic affair; the lovers found sexual pleasure in pain, even to the point of mutilation and death...
...that I was totally impressed with him. I was impressed with his sincerity and desire," Pryor said. "He took a hard hit in the election; he rose above [the pain] and showed a lot of class...
...Rudenstine, must you stoop to this level? Must you hold your own little sit-in inside our inboxes, and not go until we feel your pain? Such mass e-mail messages are generally frowned upon by rules of ‘netiquette,’ and, for less august speakers, by the Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services. Their ‘Rules and Responsibilities’ reads in part: “Messages . . . should not be sent as chain letters or broadcast indiscriminately to large numbers of individuals. This prohibition includes unauthorized mass electronic mailings. For example, e-mail...
...film Boy Named Sue, is the 13-minute film XXXY by Porter Gale and Laleh Soomekh. This emotionally gripping short film centers on two people who were born intersex—Kristi, a bike messenger, and Howard, a clinical psychologist. Their stories share the common pain of being raised after having undergone corrective genital surgery as children. Fighting against a world in which doctors make arbitrary choices about children’s sex and gender, independent of their parents, Kristi and Howard relate the horrors of adolescence and adulthood when...
...Painter of Birds is a coming of age story much like Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. Jorge’s characters, like Alvarez’s, live in a large family compound under the guidance of a stern father who watches in pain as his offspring leave him and his family values behind for a more modern world. The daughter that is left behind is the secret and shame of the family. Her father is actually Walter, one of the sons who has gone out into the world...