Word: raisons
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...model for Woolf's Orlando). Though not as well-known to American audiences (her one-woman show, A Room of One's Own, also adapted from Woolf, aired on PBS), Atkins is every bit as good as the dowdy, neurasthenic Virginia. It is the language that is the raison d'etre here, and the two actresses toy with it deliciously. Nevertheless, the material is simply not weighty enough to sustain the nearly 2 1/2 hrs. The words are beautiful, but the subject matter -- auto trips, Virginia's health, contemporaries unknown to us -- becomes tedious...
Moreover, we can't help but use this opportunity to question the raison d'etre for Radcliffe itself. We've said it before and we'll say it again: the fact that Radcliffe offers certain benefits only to Harvard's female undergraduates--and not to males--is unfair and discriminatory. And, ironically, Radcliffe's existence as an institution distinct from Harvard implies that female students are second-class citizens at Harvard who need a separate "home" where they will be coddled...
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