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Anti-gay, sexist, and generally misanthropic, these comments portray a pretty bleak world-view. "Some days you're the bug," reads one of the more articulate enunciation. "Other days you're the windshield...

Author: By Maya E. Fischhoff, | Title: SCRAWLING GRAFFITI | 2/29/1992 | See Source »

Decrying right-wing "demonization" of women, Michelman said that the "New Right" has managed to portray feminists as "confused, selfish and anti-family...[while] equality and respect remain but a distant dream...

Author: By Marion B. Gammill, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NARAL President Urges Women To Exercise Their Voting Powers | 2/21/1992 | See Source »

Walter Matthau does not have to stretch too far to accurately portray a disheveled subway dispatcher--this is vintage Matthau: New York accent, stained shirts, mussed hair and bulbous nose dipping its way into everyone's business. As we follow Matthau's attempts to thwart the hijackers, the absolutely tangled insanity of this underground city, the subway, comes...

Author: By Daniel E. Kosowsky, | Title: Psychopathic Preachers & Urban Crime | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...acts, the show's heroine, Shirley Valentine manages to portray the dreary existence of a working class English housewife and her quest to break out of the confines of her kitchen. She confides her deepest sexual secrets--namely her absence of orgasm--and travels with the audience to the Greek Isles, where she takes a lover. With humor and spunk, Shirley makes a new life for herself...

Author: By Ronnetta L. Fagan, | Title: See my Valentine: | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...sweetheart, Gloria, are entrancing in their vivid representation of the absurdities of love, liking and all the intermediate emotions. Chloe Leamon, however, was perhaps not an ideal choice for the part of Gloria. Leamon is entirely credible as a woman contemptuous of passion, but she fails to portray adequately Gloria's descent from feminism to femininity...

Author: By Ashwini Sukthankar, | Title: Shaw's World: Party On, George! | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

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