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...Brick, a football hero turned alcoholic who is mourning his lost youth, the fading of his athletic prowess and, above all, the death of his best friend Skipper, whose devotion to Brick was deeply, if never explicitly, sexual. In some interpretations, Brick is unquestionably homosexual himself. In others, his rage at his wife Maggie stems from her having forced him to confront an uncomfortable truth about his friend. Daniel Hugh Kelly splits the difference. His Brick unmistakably was capable of physical love with Skipper; just as unmistakably, he remains capable of physical love with Maggie in what is played...
Everything about this latest rage, adds Cuomo quickly, should be viewed as "a continuum. The '88 presidential campaign was full of crassness and negativism. The lesson was, You do what you have to to win. You lie, you cheat. Whatever it takes. But engage in civil discourse? Forget about it. You want to win, you follow the polls. Supporting the death penalty is just the epitome of the syndrome. It's the shepherds following the sheep, without stopping to think about what happens when the sheep get to the cliff...
About two weeks ago, a previously obscure Black journal received campus acclaim for its newly-released 95-page publication. Diaspora surprised a lot of its literary peers--but shocking literary peers seems to be all the rage lately...
...that the "evil empire" has become the beleaguered empire, nothing scares Washington more than the specter of a battle over Social Security. Even the subtlest effort to tinker with this most sacrosanct of federal benefit programs ignites the rage of senior citizens, whose lobbying groups are among the most feared in the nation. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's proposal to cut the Social Security payroll tax and stop using the enormous funds it generates to disguise the size of the federal budget deficit is anything but subtle. It is so explosive that Republicans and Democrats alike are running from...
William Hogarth invented the panorama of social class as a subject in English painting. Rowlandson, who was eight when Hogarth died, continued the tradition, with an equal gusto but greater humor. The dark side of Hogarth, his capacity for moral rage, is largely missing in Rowlandson, and his interest in art theory is entirely absent. The biggest difference of all was that Rowlandson had none of Hogarth's ambition for major categories of art, not just history painting, but oil painting itself. He was perfectly content with pen and watercolor. But his mastery of them was complete, and it shows...