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...portrayal of the perplexing nature of female depression in “Friends with Money” seems to echo Michael Cunningham’s book and 2002 screenplay “The Hours.” At the same time, this movie strives for the sexual humor and heart-warming friendship of “Sex and the City”—unsurprising in that Holofcener directed several episodes of the seminal show...
...while vigils were occurring on campus) and that the coach had scheduled a practice which had caused the players to miss a course over a professor’s objections. These issues, while imprortant in the world of college sports, are unrelated to the case at hand. Rape and sexual assault are clearly very large problems in America, and we do not mean to trivialize the plight of the woman in question. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a woman is raped every two minutes in the U.S.. This is a startling statistic, adding up to over...
...worse for this issue of homosexuality, the science could be damaging in major ways. Firstly, what science might find as a genetic explanation for homosexuality—a mutated chromosome, an enlarged polymorphic marker, or a peculiar hypothalamus—could be used as a means of eliminating the sexual orientation. Pregnant women currently test their fetuses for diseases like Down Syndrome and abort these children if they are so inclined; they might not hesitate to do the same to avoid a gay child. Even more likely, the scientific explanation will further imprison homosexuals in the semantic grouping so feared...
...creature of habit. There are no surprises—just more of the same winning formula. Replace the scientist with a stolid Harvard symbologist, the analyst with a sassy cop, and the executive branch with the Catholic Church. Then include some car chases, narrow escapes, and the requisite sexual tension—and voil?...
...DIED. JOHN MCGAHERN, 71, Irish novelist whose early assaults on Ireland's religious and sexual hypocrisy were long shunned at home; in Dublin. After his 1965 novel The Dark was banned and he was forced out of his teaching job, McGahern moved abroad, living in England, France and the U.S. It was only after he resettled in his native Leitrim in the early 1970s that Ireland began to cherish his work, recognizing itself in his quiet portraits of a country riven by the pressures of the modern world...