Word: twins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the images Tan creates are effective portraits. In one piece, called "Positron," two twins, one wearing white, the other black, slowly dance to Philip Glass' "Metamorphosis One," and exchange clothes. Then one twin carries the other off the stage...
Delivery of the first plane is expected Sept. 30, the second nine months later. What marvelous machines they will be. The presidential suite up front will have twin beds, a shower-tub, electric window curtains. Refrigerator- freezers will hold provisions to feed the 23 crew and 70 passengers for about a week. The plane could function that long on the ground or be refueled in the air should the land be scorched or otherwise inhospitable -- a Strangelovian concept the Air Force will not abandon...
...particularly troubling given Jong's reputation as a feminist writer. True, the search to find satisfaction in developing a sense of self, not in male approval, was one of the important elements of the women's movement. But this story of a spoiled, self-indulgent woman who calls her twin girls "Mike" and "Ed" and falls for married men with bulges in their pants leaves the reader hard-pressed to find a strong feminist message. And it doesn't really address any woman's blues...
Seconds later, the Donato version had becomethe official one--the goal appeared on the statsheets and in the Twin Cities' press exactly as hehad described...
...calls what he is doing -- and permitting -- a revolution. His has (so far) been a bloodless revolution, without the murderous, conspiratorial associations that the word has carried in the past. In novel alliance with the glasnost of world communications, Gorbachev became the patron of change: Big Brother's better twin. His portraits, like icons at a saint's-day festival, waved amid a swarm of Czechs. The East German young chanted "Gorby! Gorby!" to taunt the police...