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However, if he would like to express his views and argue against what he calls the pro-choice "public relations wizardry," he should do so in a way that is structured, coherent and factual...
Lifting the military's ban on homosexuals is a good cause, and we support efforts in that direction. But limiting the options of Harvard students is not the way to express our concern. The proper targets of our disapproval are not the students who want to serve their country, but the elected leaders who control that country's discriminatory polices...
...fitting (and in the eyes of many, predictable) that Tom Hanks in "Philadelphia" should be listening to Callas's voice as he seeks to express why opera means so much to him, a gay man dying of AIDS and bereft of his position in society. Koestenbaum is of the opinion that this scene serves to establish Hank's gay character, an effective use of opera in a "somewhat shlocky" film. Is Hank's character an opera queen ? Certainly not, according to Koestenbaum. No matter how much opera means in his life, "no opera queen's apartment is that organized...
Opera's ability to express that which can not be understood through other means is the factor which has ensured its survival as an art form to this day. To a society which stressed conformation, it spoke the language of individuality, and it exalted the aberrant. As our society becomes more secure in its heterogeneity, it is difficult to say if opera will find its cultural niche eroded. However, in The Queen's Throat, Wayne Koestenbaum seeks not to speculate on opera's future but to express the glory of opera's past and the drama of opera's present...
...express their fury at declining living standards, some 30,000 Polish workers from around the country converged on Warsaw and marched through sleet and snow in one of the largest demonstrations the country has seen since the fall of communism...