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Soon after, she meets a woman professor who studies plane-tree disease. This woman tells Mona that one "must do something to stop the plague." Mona brushes off this piece of quasi-philosophy too, but the woman develops a strange obsession with the girl and the freedom that she comes...
According to various feminists, the Meese commission report was good for the women's movement (Law Professor Catharine MacKinnon), bad for the movement (A.C.L.U. Attorney Nan Hunter) or basically irrelevant to feminist interests (Movement Pioneer Betty Friedan). "Today could be a turning point in women's rights," MacKinnon told a...
Moreover, White seems to forget that sodomy laws forbid oral and anal sex between heterosexual couples as well as homosexual ones. In a dissenting opinion, Associate Justice Harry Blackmun scolds White for an "almost obsessive focus on homosexual activity." Of course, this obsession is no small coincidence. There is little...
When writing his steely, intensely violent mysteries, the novelist who is otherwise known as Evan Hunter (The Blackboard Jungle, Last Summer) calls himself Ed McBain. Fans have learned that the McBain byline promises wit, shrewd plotting and downbeat realism, but also allows for great variety. His 47th and 48th books...
This is all the more impressive because Sondheim rarely originates concepts and recoils from most proposals made by others. Indeed, says his erstwhile collaborator, Director Harold Prince, "Sondheim will find every good reason not to do a show." Once he agrees, however, his creativity is liberated by the confinement of...