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...been for heterosexuals: a quickie wedding capital. In a ground-breaking decision, the Hawaii supreme court has declared that barring gay marriages probably violates state equal-protection guarantees and ordered the state to justify the ban under the strictest judicial standards. If the ruling holds, Hawaii can expect a tidal wave of fiances; the other 49 states are likely to get a big legal headache. Even if they refuse to follow Hawaii's lead, they will have to decide whether or not to honor its gay marriages...
...heroes while the streets of Paris rang with victory celebrations? Now as the results of last week's parliamentary vote flickered across the TV screen, the numbers confirmed what all had suspected: the Socialist era was over in France. Mitterrand's party had been swamped by a right-wing tidal wave that swept up 460 of the 577 National Assembly seats and confronted the lame-duck President with the most lopsided conservative majority since the monarchy was restored...
...reassuring to know that many artists are indicating a renewed interest in aesthetics. To protect these artists from the potentially dangerous "outing" of their closeted aesthetic interest, they shall remain anonymous in this review. However, I suspect a tidal change. A critical reevaluation of the politicization of art during the last 10 years will inevitably be mounted (perhaps in the name of aesthetic) and will likely be led by these closet aesthetes who presently hide behind dense theory. It would be an unwise critic who predicts the future of art, but if one thing is certain art--like any other...
Nothing lends itself to Rossini's tidal score more than a story of comic abduction, spousal warfare, anachronistic feminism and subtle slapstick. In this opera, one Bey of Algiers, Mustafa, seeks to rid himself of his dull wife. Elvira and replace her with the kidnapped Isabella, an Italian femme fatale. Enter Lindoro, a hapless Italian slave who just happens to be the lover of Isabella. With the cooperation of an unlucky suitor and the assistance of Elvira, Isabella and Lindoro escape to Italy together by means of an outragerous contrivance, leaving Mustafa and Elvira reunited...
WHEN KENNEDY SCHOOL LECTURER ROBERT B. REICH BECAME THE FIRST HARVARD PROFESSOR TO LEAVE FOR THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION. MORE NAMES WERE EXPECTED TO FOLLOW. HOWEVER, IT SEEMS HARVARD EMPLOYEES ARE RIDING A TIDAL WAVE OF APPOINTMENTS TO WASHINGTON--A SIGHT UNSEEN SINCE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY '40--LEAVING A VACUUM INSIDE THE IVORY TOWER. THIS WEEK, ONE OF HARVARD'S FIVE VICE PRESIDENTS, JOHN H. SHATTUCK, WAS NOMINATED TO A POST IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT, BRINGING THE UNOFFICIAL UNIVERSITY TALLY TO 11, AND RUMORS ARE CIRCULATING ABOUT YET MORE APPOINTMENTS...