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Pale and plainly dressed, a woman we will soon come to know as Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) sits alone in soulless airport waiting room. She expresses no visible emotions, and maybe she is too stunned to feel any. It's also possible that she is feeling so many emotions, and that they are so contradictory, that she cannot respond to any of them except with puzzled silence...
Morrison's vision has never been much in need of this kind of enlarging. Her work has always been epic in scope. In Beloved, Morrison told the story of Sethe, a woman who murdered her own child rather than see her sold into slavery. Early on in A Mercy, we watch a mother do the opposite--she puts her daughter Florens up for sale: "Please, Senhor. Not me. Take her. Take my daughter." It's a less bloody moment, but in its way it's no less chilling. A Mercy is that daughter's tale...
...Packer's Betrayed, based on his reportage about the plight of Iraqi citizens who went to work for the Americans early in the war, then were abandoned to face sectarian revenge). Some plays are stripped-down monologues, like Judith Thompson's Palace of the End, in which an Iraqi woman, a British weapons expert and a U.S. soldier who took part in prisoner abuse tell their stories; others are more ambitious, experimental and experiential. Coming soon to off-off-Broadway: a 3 1/2-hour environmental-theater event called Surrender, in which audience members are put through simulated training and deployment...
...questions about how Cambridge could further integrate GLBT awareness into education and city’s social and religious scenes. “We should have some piece of curriculum in the K-8 education that talks about GLBT issues, maybe more teacher training,” said one woman who has a daughter in high school with her partner. Many of the suggestions centered around a desire to improve the perception of homosexuals in the city and to increase awareness of gay rights. Several group members suggested incorporating GLBT-friendly books into school reading lists, renovating gay dance bars...
...Komunyakaa is not only interested in the physical objects that make up war. The poems in the first section are as much about love as they are about battle. “For a woman to conceive in this place & time, / she must be in the arms of a warrior riding / down through the bloody ages,” he says in one of his earlier poems. The women in his poems both drive the war and have the mystical power to soothe and heal the wounds of battle. They are both an antidote and a cause...