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...directors follow two high school basketball stars, a black from Brooklyn and a small-town Wasp from Lebanon, Ind., as they endure the victories and defeats of senior year. The overall message is a real doozy: sports are a metaphor for society. From this profound insight, the film embraces all the sociological idiocies that Albert Brooks satirized in Real Life...
Other dichotomies haunt Dubin's life. He is Jewish; his wife is a WASP. He is a city boy transplanted to the country, middle-aged and in love with youth, an orderly soul fighting chaos. The novel is one long standoff between these competing forces, and in the end there is no resolution...
...loved your article about women in the military [Oct. 30]. Wow, if I were only 30 years younger. I served in the WASP during World War II. Guess what? I could pick up 100 lbs. even when six months pregnant. And I'm 5 ft. 6 in. and weigh 120 lbs. So don't tell me women can't do the labor. I hope all goes well with the lady military...
Applause, applause! Finally we have been presented with an understandable insight into those "foreign" people, the Hispanics [Oct. 16]. Born and educated as a middle-class Wasp, I have contributed to that "minority within a minority" by marrying a Cuban. I found myself welcomed openly and warmly into my husband's family. I have delightedly discovered that their life in this country is just like mine-work, school, keeping a home-but with an added zest, and an outpouring of love and vitality for everything around them...
...standard Upper West Side ugly duckling, like TV's Brenda Morgenstern: she is a sassy, overweight Jewish woman who is luckless with men and still struggling in her career as a photographer. Her roommate Anne Munroe (Anita Skinner) is an even more familiar type-a svelte, high-strung Wasp with ambitions to write poetry. When Anne leaves the nest to get married, her relationship with Susan starts to deteriorate. Since we never understood why they were close friends in the first place, it is impossible to care about the seemingly arbitrary squabbles that follow...