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...Street Stud. The petals are all bruised in Miss Janie: an ice-cool, second-rate white guitarist; a cocky, unconsciously comic black nationalist; an ex-beatnik Jewish poet adrift on drugs; a dutiful black wife two-timed by her best friend, who comes through the back door every time she goes out the front...
...befuddled, innocent, college-educated liberal. She professes to admire the poems of Monty (Adeyami Lythcott), her eventual rapist. But it is clear that she is drawn to a black man as by an intoxicating musk and a not-so-fantasied danger. Bullins' Monty is a street stud who has climbed out of the ghetto without shedding his skin. With "Miss Janie," as he tauntingly calls her, Monty does not so much wish to make a score as to even...
...despairing agreement. When Lenny blows up at him for moving in on Jackie, George tries to calm the executive with the sincere assurance that Jackie truly loves him. But such scenes are unconvincing, for George's overall personality has been made abundantly clear: he is nothing but a dumb stud, whose only responsibility is to make sure he wipes his groin clean before going from one woman to the next (which, incidentally, he fails to do when he beds down with Felicia minutes after making her daughter). His dailogue runs from such phrases as "Uh...Well...Uh...Geee, I didn...
Actually it has mattered from the very beginning. Harvard never was a mystery to me. I have lived and breathed Harvard ever since I was six (we get our heat from the Bio Lab). As a freshman I knew that Vis. Stud. was a department and not a feminist porno magazine. The names, the buildings, the people, the places, the ins and the outs so confusing to newcomers were not only familiar to me but were part of me. I did not have a problem adjusting. Of course I lost a lot of the excitement of going away to college...
Reyes shook his head when he talked about the Soc Stud seniors on Wednesday. "It makes me feel like I'm the last"--an embarrassed pause--"of a breed." And then he laughed...