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...progresses through the text, it becomes clear that Berman has a different agenda than the simple usurpation of egregious male hegemony. Rather than straighfowardly singing the virtues of dog, this book actually structured according to any unexpected dialectic. It ends with the not-so-revolutionary preposition that it is, in fact, men who are better than dogs, if only because Holiday Inns accept them (i.e. men are easier to have sex with...
...story of a man who is beloved for spendthrift indulgence of his friends, then abandoned the instant his considerable fortune is gone, has been set in the jazz age and augmented with music by Duke Ellington. The semimodern dress and judicious pruning of the most convoluted language makes the text accessible, and its cynicism about the rich is timeless. But the play's rage depends in large part on the context of classical notions about the sacred nature of hospitality. These ideas of mutual obligation, almost unto ruin, were antique in Shakespeare's day, and are alien...
...actress who played the adolescent Lindo in Wayne Wang's movie made her debut at Harvard this year--as a student, that is. Fresh from the glitz and razzmatazz of Hollywood, the 18-year old Ng has swapped her scripts and jet-setting lifestyle for good old-fashioned text-books and the coziness of 29 Garden Street. Drama has been placed on the backburner while she devotes herself to her studies. "It's too bad that I'm not honing my craft, but I have so much work to do," Ng said...
...start to read everything as a text. This primarily afflicts humanities and social science concentrators (though physics students, I imagine, might start to see closing doors and rolling chairs a little differently, too). You deconstruct dining hall conversation. "But when you said you desired more spanikopita, what was the referent?" You start to speak in paragraphs; you wait your turn. A friend at the head of the table starts calling on people. You bus your tray and get back to work...
...Harriet Doerr's new novel, Consider This, Senora. An azure bubble of a church dome, crimson and cream splashes of title roofing and whitewashed walls merge in a hazy dreamscape technicolor. The cover seems to promise a self-indulgent, romanticized odyssey into a picture perfect landscape. But the text within reveals nothing of the sort: Doerr's crisp, pacific prose never lapses into kitsch other-worldliness in this captivating portrait of gringos in small-town Mexico...