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...places below most people's equator, not just Lower Manhattan but the drag bars and sex clubs of Bangkok and Manila. All the same, some of Goldin's frontiers are well on their way to being settled. Thanks to Calvin Klein's skanky ad campaigns and the Broadway musical Rent, the same cast of dog-eared guys and Avenue B girls are everywhere. And drag? Never heard of it. Only kidding. RuPaul. Wong Foo. Switch on Good Morning America and there's Lady Chablis, the transvestite from John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil...
...turns out, the domestication of funk, which might have made Goldin quaint, works for her in a way. It reminds us of her indisputable virtue: funk, undomesticated. Whatever the pleasures of Rent, which are shrewd and abundant, it offers the Lower East Side in captivity, fetchingly confined within Broadway conventions. And those Klein ads--is that grime in the models' bangs or only hair gel caking? When Goldin descends below the taboo line, she's not just down there on a visit. She lives there, or she has. She reminds us of what the real world at night looks like...
...fact--for Sandra and Emerito Hernandez, who were driving to Cleveland, Ohio, to seek treatment for their daughter Desiree, 6, who needs a heart and lung transplant. When their minivan's broken alternator couldn't be fixed in time for their appointment--and they couldn't afford to rent a car--Hummel drove them to Cleveland himself. "Good people are scarce," says Sandra. "He's Superman...
Last month, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III described the fraternity's decision to rent a house as an "unfortunate development...
North Cambridge hasn't changed much over the years, but in the aftermath of rent control's abolition by statewide referendum two years ago, there's been an influx of upscale residents in all neighborhoods...