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...Lucky Strikes, lost his virginity to a bonobo (a cruel joke played by Charlie Chaplin) and snorted "star-powder" (a homeopathic remedy, they told him). And despite his star billing, Cheeta had to put up with some pretty cutting social prejudice. At one typically drunken lunch party, Cheeta recalls, "Sylvia [Fairbanks] had pressed some bananas on me, and made a rather snippy observation when I declined and opted for the steak tartare and a cigarette...
Liberalism, homosexuality, and of course bestiality—these are just a few of the provocative topics that are addressed in the dramatic production of three-time Putlizter Prize-winner Edward Albee’s “The Goat: Or, Who is Sylvia?” The play opened last night and will run through Oct. 26 in Adams Pool Theatre...
...central issue revolves around Albee’s protagonist, Martin (Eduardo J. Perez-Torres ’12), who reveals to his family that he has been having an affair with a goat named Sylvia. And it’s not just sex he is after. No, Martin divulges to his dumbfounded wife Stevie (law student Mary R. Plante) that he is not merely infatuated but in love with the goat...
...1960s to the mid-1970s were the heyday of the crazy-girl book: books by and about young women who lost their minds. Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, Joanne Greenberg's haunting I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Go Ask Alice, Sybil. There were books about crazy boys too, of course, such as Mark Vonnegut's The Eden Express. But that's just boys. Everybody knows they're crazy. There was something disturbingly, voyeuristically hypnotic about those hippie Ophelias--electrode paste on their temples beneath their center-parted hair, Jefferson Airplane on the sound track, psychedelic chaos...
There is a dancing, dazzling siren seductress at the heart of this book and of all books like it, and it is not Sally (or Sybil or Sylvia) but madness itself. When Sally turns manic, it's as if some interstellar alien god is speaking through her, and you hang on to its every word. As a person, you want her to get better, but as a reader, you can't get enough of the crazy. ("Mania is a glutton for attention," says Dr. Lensing, Sally's gifted therapist. "It craves thrills, action, it wants to keep thriving, it will...