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...Cartier, Fendi, Gucci, Hermes . . ." all the way down to ". . . Valentino, Vuitton and Zabar." Instead of superhero lunch boxes, these kids will tote personalized shopping bags. And what about children cursed with parents whose taste in store names is simply too plebeian? On Geraldo, talk-show shrinks will discuss the trauma of low-rent names like Kmart Smith and Shoe-Town Jones...
Cultural colonialism has been a touchy issue ever since Governors appointed by Washington before World War II attempted to impose English through the school system. (Spain ceded the island to the U.S. after the Spanish-American War of 1898.) "There was resentment, trauma, about being forced to learn all subjects in English years ago," says Ricardo Alegria, executive director of the Center for Advanced Studies in San Juan. Those memories, he speculates, cause many to resist learning English even today. Insular identity remains sacrosanct. Last week, after Madonna caressed herself with the Puerto Rican flag during a San Juan concert...
Yvonne Roemer faces the same challenge, spiced with a pinch of rape trauma. She glides effortlessly from coquettish flirting to ranting bloodlust. She grapples with the most rhetorical speech in the play, and succeeds in varying her tone without reducing the dramatic crescendo...
...trauma ward too is overflowing. Dozens of civilians are being killed or maimed every day in land-mine explosions as they scour the countryside for sustenance. The mutilados, as the amputees are called, relive their nightmares every time the sound of mortar fire echoes across the city, but mostly they just wait. "We lack food, medicine, beds, mattresses and linen," says Neho. "I appeal to anybody in a position of authority to help...
...clear that Powell could swallow this responsibility. He has a clear history of opposing U.S. commitments abroad, from the Gulf War to Somalia and Bosnia. His opposition appears to stem from the trauma of Vietnam; he is determined not to let an ill-advised deployment hurt the military, an institution to which, in the words of The New York Times, he has a "mystical attachment...