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...students would have been worthy of the late well-known senator from Wisconsin. Marty's creativity is justly known and admired, but never has his imagination soared to greater heights than in the destructive innuendo directed at Professor Stager. As was said to another character assassin--"Have you no shame, Senator?" Leon Levy

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peretz Heaps Slurs Unfairly | 12/10/1993 | See Source »

There are, however, a few too many scenes which seem just to be one or two characters on stage, belting out their numbers with little else of interest. It's a shame when this happens; it's like being in a car that accelerates and comes to full-stop, again and again. The characters change moods like cartoon figures, adding to the merry simplicity of the plot and milking Gilbert's wit for all it's worth. This is effortless, fun entertainment...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: Smooth Sailing on the HMS Pinafore | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

After Vietnam, Corrina's family lived in Malaysia. Then they moved to the United States. On the ship from Malaysia to America, Corrina saw girls get raped and killed. "Sometimes there is a lot of shame in a family when a girl gets raped. Sometimes the family will throw her overboard. So many people die on the boat, sickness or no food or too young. So many people...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sunday Night, December 5: Chinatown | 12/9/1993 | See Source »

...wife's version, Tajomaru fled after raping her and she found herself alone with her husband. She tried to make him kill her to relieve her of her shame, but he would not. Driven mad by the contemptuous look in his eyes, she fainted, and upon awakening found her dagger in his chest. In the husband's version, related by a medium, the wife wanted to escape with Tajomaru and told the bandit to kill him, but Tajomaru would not do it. The wife fled the scene and the bandit went after her, and then the husband committed suicide. Finally...

Author: By Joel Villasenor-ruiz, | Title: `Rashomon' Is Truly Classic, Even If Truth Is Unknowable | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

...wife to death because he suspected her of cheating on him. Feminists were outraged when Chen was sentenced to just five years' probation. But the judge had relied on an anthropologist's testimony about the seriousness of infidelity in Chinese culture and on the defense's contention that shame pushed Chen to an extreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cultural Defense | 12/2/1993 | See Source »

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