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...Virginia Woolf Effect has a twin. Men were similarly encouraged to overvalue and romanticize women. Women now profess to find that sort of idealization stultifying and ultimately imprisoning. Would so much be lost if each sex mirrored the other at twice the real size and stature...
...producers profess only delight. Says Rocco Landesman, president of the Jujamcyn theater-ownership group that is co-financing and housing Millennium and Perestroika: "When we look back on this in five or 10 years, we are not going to remember our exasperation at the script coming in late or how much money it cost. We are going to remember that we are the producers of Angels in America, the most important play in a generation...
...shift gears, focusing on the serious problems of divorce. While Sally Field is largely convincing as a somewhat frustrated, struggling career woman, the "real-life" interactions between Daniel and Miranda seem stiff and unrealistic. And no tangible rapport is established between Daniel and his beloved children--they may profess to love him, but all seem equally fond of thehandsome, stereotypical yuppie Stu, a purposelyone-dimensional character. The relationshipbetween Daniel/Mrs. Doubtfire and Stu seems overlystrained given that Daniel's main motivation forthe charade is to see his kids, not to reunitewith Miranda. This detracts from our sympathy forWilliams' character by making...
...stumps me that The Crimson reserves a column for Jordan Schreiber's typically self-righteous and never-constructive tirades--this time [Crimson, October 27] against those who are willing to profess (courageously, in my opinion) their moral ambivalence toward and reservations against homosexuality. Though a liberal and a gay-rights supporter myself, it's clear to me that Schreiber is not at all interested in provoking a serious, compassionate discussion about campus issues like homosexuality. In fact, he seems psychologically incapable of the task...
Several city council candidates profess interest in the student vote but say they do not depend very heavily...