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...Tamora, Soler is every inch the vengeful hussy. Rapists Demetrius and Chiron (Jason R. Vartikar-McCullough ’11 and Daniel R. Pecci ’09) are chillingly rambunctious and buffoonish in their cruelty. There is a particularly searing moment when they execute Lavinia’s rape scene completely aurally from off stage. The red-bandaged, mutilated Lavinia then staggers pathetically back onstage. The effect is shocking...
...play in “Titus Andronicus”?JVM: I play Demetrius, who is the son of Tamora, Queen of the Goths.RR: What’s his role in the story?JVM: I have a brother named Chiron, and the two of us go and essentially rape Lavinia. We cut off her arms and we cut out her tongue. We are essentially the antagonists of the play.RR: Are there any evil villains who inspire you for this role?JVM: Not really.RR: What’s the most gruesome scene in the play?JVM: I guess the most gruesome scene...
...talk sponsored by Harvard Men Against Rape and the Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Response, Dines asserted that we live in a “culture completely hijacked by corporate culture.” The degree to which we have been victimized is so great, that we cannot even see the ways in which pornography has infiltrated our lives. Expressing similar sentiments at the Feminist Anti-Pornography Conference earlier this year, Dines despaired: “Everywhere we go, we are bombarded with the droppings of the pornography industry. Our lives are overwhelmed by images that scream misogyny...
...earned his reputation as a literary brute, whose characters constantly suffer at the claws of icy fate. He openly admires Faulkner's novels, and the grotesque absurdities in Yu's fiction wouldn't feel out of place in Faulkner's degenerate American South: a teen tries to rape a woman in her 70s to see what it's like, a man tries to pawn his dead father's frozen body, a drunkard drowns in a cesspit...
...aficionado, city honey is purer, according to Benbow, because in the country you have oilseed rape, genetically modified crops, pesticides and fertilizers, whereas traffic pollution doesn't seem to affect bees. City bees are more productive: ample food plus warmer temperatures mean they yield up to three times as much honey as their country cousins, according to the British Beekeepers Association. "London's a delight for a bee, because there are so many flowering plants and trees," says Benbow, who describes the taste of the honey he collects from 17 other hives he has hidden on London rooftops as similar...