The Language of Gestures, as Translated by U. of C. Psycholinguist David McNeill
Tag: Vol. 21 No. 2
Issue of Oct. 24 – 30, 1991
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Mail-Order Blues
To the editors: This letter is in regard to the article in the Reader about the State Street area [September 6]. The article seemed to make the point that object buyers and users of service offered in the State Street area have been lured away by the suburban malls, easy driving and parking, and more […]
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The City File
Percentage of Cook County criminal defendants who are represented by the Public Defender’s Office: 85 (Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, September 5). “Tap [dancing] is the perfect example of a positive outcome of cultural hybridization,” Chicago choreographer Lane Alexander tells Effie Mihopoulos in Chicago Dance Coalition (Fall). “No single culture can claim sole credit for it–the […]
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The Magic of Uncertainty
HAUPTMANN Victory Gardens Theater The Clarence Thomas hearings may have been unsatisfying as democratic process but they were riveting theater–and for precisely the same reason: we came to see that the man who would be justice was fundamentally unknowable. We could listen to him all day, and many of us did, never learning a single […]
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Mad As Hell
To the editors: Your feature article in last week’s Reader, “Everything You Know About AIDS Is Wrong” [October 4], made me mad as hell. Don’t get me wrong. It’s not your fault. On the contrary, you made a brave and important contribution to our community. Steve Heimoff did an outstanding job of researching his questions […]
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Cube
In the 19th century Eastern Europe provided some of classical music’s biggest guns, but its record is less remarkable this century–especially in the three decades after the end of World War II, during which musicians behind the Iron Curtain found themselves more or less toeing the party lines. Now that the cold war is over, […]
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Burn This Poster?/Local News
How dirty is Playboy’s money? Each month the nation’s leading magazine for young heterosexual men who haven’t quite grown up yet celebrates the ancient art of public dishabille. But does this ritual make the magazine essentially silly or essentially malign? Last month the board of the Illinois Gay and Lesbian Task Force came to a […]
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Lincoln-Belmont-Ashland: gold mine or ghost town?
In the good old days they came by bus, train, or trolley to shop in the stores in the Lincoln-Belmont-Ashland business district. “You’d get dressed up to go shopping; it was a big thing,” says Anne LaFleur, a longtime resident of Lakeview. “You could buy fancy dresses and nice shoes; we’d go on weekends. It […]
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A Black Man Named Joe
A BLACK MAN NAMED JOE Black Ensemble I should have been a mess when I left the theater. Jackie Taylor’s play about her brother, A Black Man Named Joe, hits a little too close to home. Like her brother, my cousin was killed by a drunk driver. He too was 29 years old. While my […]
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Nature and Sensual Appetite/Quantum Theater
NATURE AND SENSUAL APPETITE Chicago Medieval Players at the Royal George Theatre Center QUANTUM THEATER Poison Nut Productions at the Rudely Elegant Theater and Gallery Nature and Sensual Appetite was not the original name for this play. Chicago Medieval Players cannily created it: “sensual” sells. The original title was The Nature of the Four Elements–a […]
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Social Security/Back to the Nest
SOCIAL SECURITY Avenue Theatre BACK TO THE NEST Realism Update Theatre at the Avenue Theatre Andrew Bergman’s Social Security has flaws enough to hobble the best of theater companies. The characters are cartoon thin: everyone is given an occupation and one stereotypical trait. David, the wealthy art dealer, is an urbane wisecracker. His wife Barbara, […]
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Chicago International Film Festival
Tonight is the last night of the 27th Chicago International Film Festival; screenings take place at the Fine Arts, 418 S. Michigan, and the Esquire, 58 E. Oak. Tickets can be purchased at the theater box office one hour before show time or at the film festival store, 828 N. State. General admission is $7, […]