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...long-time reader, I sincerely hope that this is not the case. I strongly urge you to give this excellent production its fair share of press. It is high time that all publications realize that progress will never be made on issues of gender relations as long as attention is devoted exclusively to conventional drama at the expense of productions like "Cloud 9" that raise important questions without going overboard with excessive radical feminist rhetoric...
...avalanche of unsettling images is both revolting and, eventually, redemptive. Bubbies' case of negrophobia forces her to explore the underside of American culture; her trip through a hell of inhuman caricatures forces the reader to confront the ugly, distorted and hateful manner in which Blacks have traditionally been resented in this country...
...power to charm. They're like witty people -- the author had better be able to suggest an elusive quality without making heavy weather of the whole matter. Stephen McCauley has that skill. The hero of The Easy Way Out is a fellow of no obvious consequence, but the reader gladly follows him through a dizzy emotional crisis...
...Death and God in L.A., a new book of essays edited by David Reid, admirably avoids settling for any of these oversimplified pictures as a real explanation of the city. The book's sheer scope guarantees that the somewhat chaotic reality of Los Angeles does not escape the reader: there is the predictable section dealing with the movies, but there is also a refreshing look at the city's architectural significance, several personal and theoretical discussions of its racial and cultural make-up, in-depth analyses of the economic prospects of the Downtown region and a piece on the city...
Brown is keenly aware that her boss brings more than a bottom-line interest to her new assignment. Newhouse "always has been a passionate reader" of the New Yorker, she says. "It bothers him when he asks people if they've read a piece and they say no. He feels, 'Why haven't they read it?' I think what concerns him is the notion that perhaps another generation won't read...