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...first we were inclined to think of the tale of the teacher and her sixth-grade lover as mere daytime-television trash in the flesh--the teacher-pupil angle slipping a ghost of incest into the narrative, and no doubt a touch of mental illness. On the other hand, we have gone pretty far in exhausting the categories of the forbidden. The love that dare not speak its name has become public, ordinary and settled into domestic life, as wholesome as Fred MacMurray in a cardigan. The President's penis and its recreations are routinely discussed in public without much...
After all the trash they have given Bill Clinton these past few months for not being honest in admitting to sins no one has even been able to prove transpired, you'd think conservatives would find some solace in the truthful remarks the President made on his tour through Africa. At least, you'd think, they would be pleased that he's not one who can lie before a crowd of school children. Not a man who could stand, as head of the great, big, powerful United States, before innocent youngsters who face life in a country beset with woes...
...smoke originated in B entryway, where students were burning papers in a trash can. Shortly after 1 a.m. a resident noticed smoke seeping into a bathroom through the dormitory's ventilation system and called the fire department...
...piece things together. But this task is often distracted into a fumbling account of the scores of #'s literary references. Some of these references are disjunct and capricious, but the best, like the Interlude of scene five, are masterpieces of intertextuality without being "coterie items. "Rising from trash cans borrowed from Beckett, Ezra Pound (Yu) and T.S. Eliot (Marler) offer up literature. In a later scene, Pound, with Robert Lowell, reflects that he "began with swollen head, and ended with swollen feet...
...room's only saving grace was that it did not have a hot water problem. However, we soon found that the hot water issue was replaced by a drainage issue. After showering, the water in the tub would come up to our knees. We had to use a trash can to bail out the water so that the next person in line to use the shower would not drown or flood the place. We feared that tensions would flair up and we'd kill each other in such confined quarters, but after a while, we found the situation comical...