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...royal ditsiness, the new queen wants to pave over the Enchanted Woodyou-bemyneighbor to make room for the Fairest of the Mall. Prettiface's plan angers King Oberon Yourleft (Chip Rosetti), a tree-hugging Shakespearean sprite with magical powers. Hence, political subtext...

Author: By John A. Cloud and Beth L. Pinsker, S | Title: AN EVENING WITH KNIGHTS IN SHINING DRAG | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...plot. Brian Martin does a terrific job as Tess Pattern, a wovewy journalist with a speech impediment. She and Tab Lloyd (Andrew Howard), a 15th-century Geraldo Rivera-Maury Povich type, dig away at the sleazy side of the kingdom, threatening to broadcast everyone's dirty laundry. (Political Subtext...

Author: By John A. Cloud and Beth L. Pinsker, S | Title: AN EVENING WITH KNIGHTS IN SHINING DRAG | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...fact, the authors use a repertoire of hackneyed Bush jokes that seem stale four months after the campaign. (Political Subtext...

Author: By John A. Cloud and Beth L. Pinsker, S | Title: AN EVENING WITH KNIGHTS IN SHINING DRAG | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...foundations of [racism] still exist--the notion of white supremacy and its necessary counterpart, Black inferiority," he says. "I've read it in textbooks. It's a subtext. It's the subtext of the educational system in America...

Author: By Asya M. Muchnick, | Title: BATTLE AGAINST THE 'HARVARD PLANTATION' | 2/27/1993 | See Source »

This intense scrutiny of childcare issues obscures the real debate and constricts the universe of real issues. The debate, though, has been crudely framed--its subtext is really about working women and the reproductive and career choices that they make. The automatic assumption that all women are prospective mothers forces us to focus on their reproductive capacities. We need to establish that not all women's motivations, expectations and capabilities are the same--especially where reproductive issues are concerned...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Liberally Eroding Women's Choice | 2/26/1993 | See Source »

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