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...history of sexuality section in the bookstore, Make Love, Not War, boldly claims to be "the first serious treatment of the events, ideas, and personalities that drove the sexual revolution." Yet sex is a subject almost impossible to keep within the bounds of strict academic discourse. Allyn falls victim to loose scholarship and resorts to anecdotes as proof for unfounded social theories. His thesis, which purports that the sexual revolution of the '60s and '70s was unique, is simple and unoriginal. Nonetheless, Make Love Not War is an interesting compilation of stories about...
There were two kinds of lynchings. At the "orderly" ones, local bankers and lawyers attended to keep the bloodlust in check. What that meant is merely that the victim was hanged without torture. At the wilder scenes, the crowd egged itself on into a frenzy beyond imagining. Before Sam Hose was doused with oil and set afire, he had his ears and fingers cut off and the skin stripped from his face. Jesse Washington, a retarded farm worker convicted of killing a white woman, was hung by a chain over a bonfire and repeatedly dipped into the flames...
...nobody's really satisfied with just one hit. As No Doubt prepares to release Return of Saturn, its long-struggled-over fourth album, the group finds itself the victim of the same erratic pop market that gave it multiplatinum millionaire video stardom. "I just don't know where we fit in," says Stefani, contemplating the andro-fueled rock bands and teen pop tarts that have muscled into No Doubt's territory. "There should be enough room for everything," she says gloomily, "but right now those acts take up so much room...
...refer to the 1930 film Blue Angel, which features the debasement of an infatuated professor, but she has also constructed her collegiate climate as a latter-day Salem, tyrannized by the puritanical forces of sexual-harassment policies that demand some sacrifice. However, by presenting neither character as an obvious victim or villain, the novel maintains a level of suspense, momentum and humor. And though the hypocrisy of the political-correctness movement has been amply explored elsewhere, Prose still manages to find fresh ways to lampoon...
...play avoids predictable paths. It is not a thriller--though the tension builds inexorably. Nor is it a diatribe about the victimization of women. Theresa, played with empathy and toughness by Mary Beth Fisher, is indeed a victim, but also a strong, fallible, fully realized character. As the terror mounts, she is forced to call the police, move out of her apartment and finally change her name and her life. But there's never a cry for pity, a whiff of the self-righteous. When her ditsy secretary confesses that it was she who gave Tony her home number, Theresa...