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...idea of a residential college system--a synthesis of housing plans at Harvard and Yale--has been incubating in Princeton's administrative womb as far back as Woodrow Wilson's day, when the university's president envisioned a less elite alternative to the entirely selective "eating club" system. However, the idea transformed itself over the years into something much different. The new arrangement affects only freshmen and sophomores and will leave the eating clubs unscathed...
...consequences that could make honest talk fatal the rest of the year. What the Pharaoh wants to hear is the life stories of the elder Menenhetet, who has discovered a means of self-propagation by dying during the act of intercourse and transferring himself to his lover's womb. Menenhetet warns: "My story must be long like the length of the snake." The Pharaoh has no other plans for the rest of the night and encourages the old eyewitness to proceed "as slowly as you wish...
...Bridge, the Captain spots a young white couple crouching together in the front seat of a Mercedes. The man throws a bloody rag out the window. "They just couldn't wait to get home before shooting up," he tells Snowdrop. She smiles back, still glowing in her speedball womb. -By James Wilde
...indifference few readers will share. One seeks in vain for some faint sign of hope in Appelfeld's enigmatic parable. Redemption through suffering? Renewal or rebirth? Tzili's baby dies in her womb. The only human being who reaches out a hand to her is a prostitute. As the two women stand side by side on a ship headed for Palestine, the injured adolescent suddenly says to the fallen woman, "What I'd like now is a pear." That is all that is left of desire in Tzili, and even the pear is not forthcoming...
...vault over a chain-link fence. Their camaraderie is familial, embracing, unselfconsciously homoerotic. Left to their better selves, they can easily go all moony over sunsets, quote great swatches of Robert Frost verse, or fall innocently asleep in each other's arms. Their ideal world is both a womb and a locker room; no women need apply to this dreamy brother hood. With its soft, silvery lighting, its slow fades and dissolves and a lush score (by Carmine Coppola, the director's father), The Outsiders means to create the greasers' dream world even as it describes...