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Like Richard Nixon's Silent Majority, Buchanan's supporters -- overwhelmingly white, male and angry -- revel in his harangues as he attacks gays, environmentalists and foreigners. Though he denies charges of anti-Semitism, he last week put down a band of Jewish hecklers by telling them, "This rally is of Americans, and by Americans, and for the good old U.S.A., my friends." Says Marcel Bourgoin, 19, who turned out wearing an American-flag tie at a Charleston, S.C., harbor cruise: "He's not afraid to step on people's toes." As Buchanan puts it, "Real men gotta say what they mean...
...Hasty Pudding show, the players enter the dressing room as actors and come out actresses. Simply put, the guys become girls. It all happens backstage, the area of metamorphosis, the place where gender lines blur and men revel in putting on lipstick and brassieres. Of course, this kind of stuff may also occur in the actors' bedrooms, but only at the Pudding can they air themselves out to a large audience. A single stroll through the area behind the curtain would have supplied Freud with more than enough material for several volumes. As it is, the audience can only...
While Dottie hits the comedy club circuit in Manhattan, Erica and Opal predictably struggle to adjust to their new surroundings. As Dottie enjoys her new life, the girls revel in their mother's success on stage and at the same time feel awed and threatened by her accomplishments...
...know any regulars at the club, you are guaranteed entrance. Once you enter the domain of the beautiful people, just revel in the pleasures around you. Everyone you really want to know is here. And since you got in, they want to know...
...praise the worthy (mis?)- demeanor of the Modern Language Association, of Stanley Fish and Frederick Jameson, and let us revel in their... La dee da... standards of criticism...