Word: womanized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more risqu behavior: applying to law school or sneaking out to have sex. The play is a comedy, and by focusing on its comic aspects, director Dorothy Fortenberry '02 successfully avoids the preachy and whiny mess that the material could easily become. Wasserstein's message is that a woman must choose between being feminine and having a career and that either way she will regret her decision and feel unfulfilled...
...lets her talk at length about the various penises she has encountered and that requires her to say "I've tasted my menstrual blood!" on more than one occasion. Rita plays well off of her friend Samantha Stewart (Annalise Nelson '02), who wants nothing more than to be the woman behind the man she marries. Though she is characterized as the perfect wife, Samantha happily plays along with Rita--acting like a man and choosing which of her girlfriends she would marry...
This exchange lingered with me for several days like a bad meal of enchiladas at the Winthrop House dining hall. It wasn't that I was upset about annoying the woman. I wasn't exactly mowing her down with my bicycle, so I don't think I was causing any harm. It was more the encounter itself. I like to think I possess at least some shred of clever, subtle wit in my marrow, and, "You're stupid," while displaying elegance in brevity, is not exactly a riposte worthy of Oscar Wilde...
Without noticing the program's hint that Machinal is "based on the true story of the first woman to be electrocuted in the state of New York," the production can emerge solely as the external projection of a mind growing progressively more detached from reality. The leap that Machinal fails to translate throughout the play is that this insane mind belongs to the young woman eventually executed, for the play misses a coherent plot and can be misinterpreted as social commentary about the alienation of marriage...
...While that's good news for Cuomo, and may even lead to some help for the homeless nationwide, the story is another example of how a small urban event - in this case, the alleged assault with a brick by intermittently homeless man Paris Drake that sent a young woman to the hospital - can become of national interest when seen through the Giuliani-Hillary prism. Homelessness becomes hot, a chance for the two candidates to flaunt their party stripes. On one side the Republican mayor vows to protect society from the "violent crazies" (as a Daily News headline called them) walking...