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...been married 45 years. Is your husband your first reader...
...predilections as a sexual predator. Ode to Kirihito has plenty of stunningly sadistic moments - including a giant snake consuming a baby for the pleasure of an audience - but the gratuitous scenes of rape, often followed by the victim's falling in love with the victimizer, will change most reader's perception of Tezuka's work. Readers should realize, however, that the depiction of rape holds a different place in Japanese pop culture than it does here, and Tezuka's work needs to be contextualized in that culture. What raises eyebrows here exists as a fairly normalized depiction over there...
...Gurr's plays-from the aids-era's DesireLines through to Crazy Brave, Sex Diary of an Infidel, Jerusalem and his recent Something to Declare, about refugees-his memoir is an opportunity to understand how those plays came about. His creative ideal: Never invent, only reveal. He brings a reader close enough to taste the rumble between what he describes as "the unconscious impulse and the internal editor." "Whenever I've tried to modify the first impulse of a play," he writes, "it has turned into carpentry, an exercise in detached invention. Fiddled with, plays can stop breathing...
...Translation An Oct. 2 story on Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez incorrectly stated that he thought linguist and social critic Noam Chomsky was dead, an allusion to mistranslated remarks Chávez made at a news conference. What Chávez said was, "I am an avid reader of Noam Chomsky, as I am of an American professor who died some time ago." Later Chávez identified the professor as Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith, who died in April...
...accurately reflect your process.” The guide instructs students to cite the document where they found information or quotations—even if that document in turn cites a separate source. To students who disobey this rule, the guide warns, “you are misleading your reader and possibly embarrassing yourself...