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saw only the surface, literal aspects of the play. We were shocked and
stunned that they had missed what the play was about, that it was
designed to stimulate questions, not give easy answers, to encourage
people to look at their own prejudice, the old wounds on both sides.
. . . please do not impugn our honor by calling us prejudiced when we
employ our God-given gifts to tell our deepest truths about the moral
failure of prejudice.
New York Times A18 (May 8, 1992) (letter to The Editor, April 26).
35 Lacombe (1988); King (1985); Callwood (1985).
36 Los Angeles Times F1 (February 5, 1992). In August, Rivera taped a Klan
rally in Wisconsin. When Klansmen started calling him spic and dirty Jew
and throwing things he fought back and was arrested but secured his
release from jail in time to film the cross burning. Los Angeles Times A12
(August 17, 1992).
What was the motive of Bill Buford (expatriate American author and
Cranta editor) in hanging out with British neo-Nazis and writing "objectively"
about their thuggery? Buford (1992a; 1992b). Or the Weekly Mail,
South Africa's prize-winning progressive paper, in publishing an article
entitled "Too Many Tits, Not Enough Text" illustrated with four pictures of
topless women, ostensibly to criticise the government's hypocrisy in
banning the local porn magazine Scope while admitting its American
competitor Penthouse. Weekly Mail 6 (September 4, 1992).
37 "How can one possibly accept that a writer could distance himself from
the words his characters speak? Indeed, how can he not be responsible for
his entire representation?" Bharucha (1990: 64). This commentator is an
Indian drama critic.
38 New York Times B1 (March 6, 1991); Edwards (1991).
39 Los Angeles Times F6 (February 26, 1992).
40 New York Times B1 (March 24, 1992).
41 Lessing(1984: vii-xii); Kappeler (1986: 125-26).
42 80 years ago Marcel Duchamp "found" art, transforming ordinary objects
into "ready-mades" by appending his signature. In the overheated art
market of the 1980s, identity was the philosopher's stone. Salvador Dali's
lobster-claw telephone sold for $110,000 in 1988; one of Joseph Beuys's
100 identical felt suits for $75,360 in 1989; and in November 1991 Dan
Flavin's diagonal fluorescent light commanded $148,500 and Jeff Koons's
vacuum cleaners in plastic boxes $198,000. In February 1992 auctioneers
expected to get $50-60,000 for Willem de Kooning's five-hole privy
seat and $80-120,000 for Robert Gober's pair of urinals. New York Times
s.2 p.37 (February 23, 1992).
43 Kappeler (1986): 39) citing English (1980). See also Kensington Ladies'
Erotica Society (1984); Barbach (1984; 1986); Chester (1988); Scholder
& Silverberg (1991); Grace (1991); Kiss & Tell (1991); Shepherd (1992);
Gordon (1984).
In-group membership does not guarantee immunity from criticism.
When the Israeli rock group Duralex Sedlex accepted an invitation to
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