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written and directed by Lydia Sargent...
...WOMEN'S MOVEMENT COULD muster the kind of certainty of purpose and unity of action displayed by the seven actresses who parade through Lydia Sargent's sharp-toothed comedy revue, there would be no need for a dramatization of the troubled past and uncertain future of feminism. But as the players constantly remind is in I Read About My Death In Vogue Magazine, the movement has not been so lucky...
...been a movement which has never quite been able to set its own terms. Of late, those terms have required the movement to buck a favorite conclusion in some quarters of the popular media--namely that feminism, having attained its goals, is dead, or quite nearly so. As Sargent and her team point out, the reports of that death are greatly exaggerated...
...Harvard Rules" will include essays by such luminaries as Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen Jay Gould, Professor of Biology RuthHubbard and MIT Linguistics Noam Chomsky, as wellas several graduate students. The book "hasgenerated a lot of interest and received manyadvance offers," said Lydia Sargent, arepresentative of South End Press...
...provoke a twinge of concern. Does Sargent signal a retreat from the standards the Whitney has battled for -- the commitment to glitz that gave us the 1985 Biennial, the taste for inflated prettiness set forth in its Alex Katz retrospective, the reluctance to edit that made Eric Fischl's show such a letdown? True, Director Tom Armstrong valiantly tries to establish a link by pointing, in a catalog note, to Sargent's "highly expressive manner and his treatment of subject matter and narrative content, all of which are of great interest to contemporary artists." However, Sargent's "manner...