Word: sexualism
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...statute poses a dilemma for Harvard Law School, which requires that all recruiters pledge not to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation. But the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy bars openly gay individuals from serving in the military, and the Pentagon has refused to sign the school’s pledge...
...least financially. The black-and-white quasi-biopic Good Night, and Good Luck cost a modest $7 million and has earned $18 million at the box office to date. But North Country, the story of a single mother whose barbaric treatment in a Minnesota mine leads to the first sexual-harassment class action in the country, has been a commercial disappointment, so far recouping just half its $35 million budget...
...with having one character carry most of the burden of hysteria is that the other characters are, to some extent, straight-men, all trying to behave reasonably. The play suffers when everybody is trying to hold it together and succeeding. During these stretches, the humor is mostly derived from sexual innuendo, which largely falls short. When the characters are trying to hold it together and failing, the interplay is far more interesting: the truly funny moments in the play come when Peter, Francis, and Brian are dealing with a drugged bank inspector propped against a wall, a mother with sharp...
...play “Desdemona: A Play About a Handkerchief” started last night at the Adams House Pool Theater.Before she penned the controversial 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, “How I Learned to Drive”—the story of a young woman sexually abused by her pedophiliac uncle—Vogel “saw an image of a girl adjusting the mirror in her car and a dead uncle materializing in the background.” For Vogel, seeing this type of turning point in the play is what compels...
...woman [because Jack’s] more sensitive, and Heath is more like the John Wayne?’” While Lee doesn’t share the viewers’ facile pigeonholing, he does disclose curious thoughts on the measure of the characters’ sexuality. Though he notes that both characters are “to some degree, very gay,” he believes that “Jack is more gay.”Gyllenhaal says that the sexuality of the characters is never clear, and “in that ambiguity, that?...