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Amelia Bedelia’s charming conceit—the ridiculous assumption that a born-and-bred Englishwoman would fail to understand common expressions in her own tongue—is a hard, ironic truth for immigrants in the real world. Central Americans who leave their home countries to find work in South America are confronted with vast linguistic differences between their respective regional versions of Spanish and those practiced in South America. This communication challenge, as I had the chance to observe firsthand last semester in Argentina, doesn’t do them any favors while they attempt...
...with the daytime comes a cornucopia of panels spilling over with buzzwords, a spectacle undertaken to justify comfortable existences and expense accounts. Fresh off the plane, I attended a dreadful panel on “Indigenous Women and European Men.” It started with a red-haired Englishwoman who struck a grave face and tone and peering over her grandmotherly spectacles began, “Colonizers saw the land as a passive, indigenous woman open to the penetration of European men.” Colonial historians have an enduring fondness for imagery of rape, and to satiate...
Lemon (Kathryn Pogson) is a neurotic young Englishwoman who sits in her London flat reading about the Nazis, whom she admires, and musing over her childhood, which was dominated by Aunt Dan (Linda Hunt), a slightly sinister friend of her parents. Aunt Dan, it turns out, is crazy, but crazy in the way some people are at cocktail parties; she is able to find a plausible argument for almost any evil that governments commit, and she has turned Lemon into her philosophical clone. "Lemon presents the justification for pure selfishness," says Shawn, "even for sadistic murder. The question is raised...
...action takes place. Despite that setback, the book has finally appeared, and it proves worth the wait. Sayonara Bar is a cocktail of astringent cultural observations, genres stirred and shaken, subplots served with a twist. At first, it seems to be the story of Mary, an attractive young Englishwoman who, upon finishing her studies in Japanese, finds work as an "economy geisha" in Osaka to earn money for travel. Mary's adventures in boredom, sexual harassment and exposure to secondary smoke portend a Lost in Translation comedy of manners. But something darker is afoot. Mary is having an affair with...
...hundreds of one-on-one interviews with women ranging from ages 6 to 72. It can safely be said that there is no other performance piece that gathers into one production the stories of a sexually-abused lesbian rediscovering her ability to experience physical pleasure, a sexually-liberated Englishwoman who has at long last found her clitoris, and a power lawyer-turned-professional-pleasure-giver...