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TOFU OR NOT TOFU?
My parents didn’t keep kosher when I was growing up, but some of my friends’ families did. I learned at an early age that food restrictions serve not only to create a certain quality of life but
also to separate one group of people from another....
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FANTASY AFTER FREUD:
Sarah Schulman, Empathy (Dutton 1992, Plume/Penguin,
1993)
Sarah Schulman’s Empathy is a romp of a read, especially if you’ve always suspected there’s
life after therapy. This novel by the author of After
Delores and People in Trouble takes off on the case history of one of Sigmund Freud’s best-known patients...
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"M. Butterfly": DIPLOMAT'S DECEPTION
This true story of cross-dressing
was brought to the screen after tremendous success as a stage play. David Cronenberg
directed author David Henry Hwang’s film adaptation of an intrigue pairing an infatuated French vice-consul with a gender-bending
diva from the Beijing Opera. Jeremy Irons seems somewhat miscast...
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