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...Defamation League, a national monitor of hate groups, disclosed that Prodigy boards are being used to promote anti-Semitic propaganda. Messages have appeared contending, among other things, that the murder of millions during the Holocaust is "fantasy and exaggeration." Prodigy argues that such comments, however distasteful, fall within the realm of free expression. Even so, the company last week announced a restriction against "blatant expressions of bigotry" and will be meeting with the A.D.L. to discuss its complaints...
...noxious taint last week when former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke began battling roguish ex-Governor Edwin Edwards for the keys to the executive mansion. The campaign threatens to bare the cantankerous soul of a state that is often derided as America's banana republic, a Third World realm of corrupt and crazy politicians, wild parties and bizarre customs. Yet even Louisiana has never seen anything this weird. Says John Maginnis, publisher of the Louisiana Political Review: "We're in a new dimension of time and space. We're in the twilight zone." Sadly, this excursion may well cost...
...that the Holy Grail was really in Japan? American theater artist Robert Wilson seems to think so. For the Zurich Opera, Wilson has conjured up a LOHENGRIN that is far removed from Wagner's realm of Brabant. The composer's scenario is full of feudal warfare and knightly swordplay. But Wilson, whose career has included such mesmerizing efforts as Einstein on the Beach and the CIVIL warS, avoids conventional stage action, particularly the use of arms and hands. So this is a slo-mo Lohengrin with formalized gestures that recall tai chi. In place of the banks of the River...
...work under women. Most men can't handle it. They feel, 'I should be the boss.' The trend on campus is male directors, female producers. Harvard men don't want to admit it, but they do have problems with women in authoritative positions. Comedy is a very male-dominated realm. I am the only woman who has only done comedy. [As a director] I have my hands in everything...People are taken aback. If I were a man, they wouldn't be. It's a general cultural stereotype. A woman in an authoritative position is seen as a bitch...
...only was this not an exchange--it was language imposed on Hill--but there was also no consent on the part of Hill. Even in 1991, women are still being labeled as the provocateurs in the realm of sexual harassment. For one reason or another, a woman who makes such allegations is assumed to be crazy, vindictive, or the stereotypical "Woman in the Attic." This case is no different from others. As the senators questioned Hill, they suggested in their tone, "Little girl, are you sure you're not lying...