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...them well meaning but as self-absorbed as the rest of their generation, who find themselves overwhelmed by the yearning for a baby. In the past few years, they have come to see life without a child like the world beyond the Hudson River in the famous Saul Steinberg poster about New York City. It hardly exists. Adoption is an option, of course, but that is not the way of some baby boomers. They want happiness now -- on their own terms -- and if they have to steal from the next generation to have it, they will...
...bond with one another. Sex remains for them, of course, a scary and tragic issue. But if THE WATERDANCE has nothing new to say about its subject, at least it speaks in an engaging voice: soft, literate, modest. Probably because Neal Jimenez, its writer (and co-director with Michael Steinberg), is writing autobiographically, he is less concerned with melodramatic invention than he is with anecdotal truthfulness. The movie chooses irony over sentiment for its basic tonality, and is the better for that uncommercial choice...
Foreign students also come in search of choices. America's menu of options -- research universities, state institutions, private liberal-arts schools, community colleges, religious institutions, military academies -- is unrivaled. "In Europe," says history professor Jonathan Steinberg, who has taught at both Harvard and Cambridge, "there is one system, and that is it." While students overseas usually must demonstrate expertise in a single field, whether law or philosophy or chemistry, most American universities insist that students sample natural and social sciences, languages and literature before choosing a field of concentration...
...tenants marched to City Hall just weeks ago to protest unsatisfactory living conditions in the four-story building. They said their landlord, Alex Steinberg, was ignoring their maintenance complaints...
...good an individual--could ever be a better parent than a heterosexual. In fact, he denies that homosexuals can be parents at all. In other words, child-beater Joan Crawford was a better mother than Professor of English and American Literature Barbara Johnson would be. Child-killer Joel Steinberg was a better father than Plummer Professor of Christian Morals the Rev. Peter J. Gomes would be. We think this is pure nonsense...