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Holland's talents shine in the scenes of her rape, on her 11th birthday by a white town elder, and her mother's murder. She has an infallible ear for the emotional pace of a scene, letting the horror be just blunt enough for just long enough, then segueing into the release of laughter. She finds the right detail: the raped child from the shacks eyeing an exquisite carved bouquet on the banister as she struggles back downstairs; dogs sniffing at a patch of the mother's burnt skin scraped onto the sidewalk. Her dialogue can jolt the audience with...
...social preparation for life. They do not have the wherewithal to deal with the availability of sex, the offers to satisfy almost any gratification." Berkeley's Edwards claims to know of at least seven cases in which athletes have paid off groupies who threatened to go public with phony rape or paternity charges. And as both league officials and team executives increasingly admit, at some of the places where groupies trawl, drugs and alcohol are often present in quantity, further impediments to sensible judgment...
...Women's Street Theatre Project, which previously conducted performances on the topic of rape, is now planning to stage special performances concerning sexual harassment...
...like to see that this [the hearing] does something. What happened to Anita Hill should be enough to motivate us all," says Kedron V. McDonald '93, co-director of Response, an all-woman peer counseling group. Response counsels women on relationships, harassment, abuse and rape through phone calls and drop-in sessions, says McDonald...
...more cases of sexual harassment, rape and sexual abuse [reported], the more people are going to be challenged to face the issues," says McDonald...