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...when a monologue works -- directly, unmediated by elaborate sets and scripts, with one gifted person on a stage -- it can work big. Richard Pryor proved that with his first two concert films. He scalded all civilized pretensions off his persona and helped audiences laugh and gasp at the exposed wound. Eddie Murphy, Bill Cosby and Andrew Dice Clay also did monologue movies, but they lacked Pryor's life-or-death juice; they were mainly marketing tie-ins to the comics' celebrity...
...Sexton had a gift of the self- dramatizing and self-destructive kind. She was the mad housewife of Weston, Mass., beautiful if you caught her in the right light, "a possessed witch," as she thought of herself sometimes, "haunting the black air, braver at night." Both Plath and Sexton wound up as cautionary tales. In 1963 Plath stuck her head in an oven in London. Sexton told her psychiatrist, "Sylvia Plath's death disturbs me. Makes me want it too. She took something that was mine, that death was mine!" Eleven years later...
...status didn't just fall into their laps. It took some serious planning. During their first-year, the someday-10-Man-residents were living apart--they didn't even all know each other. But sophomore year, when Baker, Hughes, Arnold, Jonathan Stefanick '92 and Blake V. Flynn '92 wound up in a Currier quint, they came up with a Design...
...agreeable exterior is a flinty vision of American public education and its various ills that is sweeping in its condemnation. "The problem is the system," he says flatly. Alexander refers to the Supreme Court as "an obstacle" blocking the use of tax dollars for religious schools. He is wound tighter than he looks. His celebrated affability sometimes cracks when challenged -- when he is asked, for example, why his younger son William attends a Washington private school rather than a school in the public system. "I chose it because I like it," he snaps...
...doubt anticipating inferior care, many blacks avoid doctors and hospitals altogether. Black women report a prevalent attitude among gynecologists that anything wrong might be the patient's own fault. "Back a few years ago, I was having excruciating abdominal pain, and I wound up at a hospital in my area," says Alicia Georges, who lives in the Bronx and is a professor of nursing at Lehman College. "The first thing they began to ask me was how many sexual partners I'd had. I was married and owned my own house. But immediately, in looking at me, they said...