ständen und Wurstbuden. Zu hören ist aber nichts. Zentrum
der Aufmerksamkeit ist die Stelle, an der sich gerade zwei
beliebige Personen zufällig begegnen. Langsam nähert sich
die Kamera von oben, das Rundherum tritt immer weiter in
den Hintergrund.
Fröhliche Gesichter, man gibt sich die Hand und beginnt mit
dem üblichen kleinen Schwätzchen: lautlose Bilder. Als die
maximale Annäherung an die beiden Personen erreicht ist, än-
dert die Kamera ihren Winkel, so daß das seitliche Profil
der beiden den ganzen Sichtbarkeitsbereich ausfüllt. Die
When I'm good, I'm great; but when I'm bad, I'm better.
-- Mae West
When it comes to broken marriages most husbands will split the blame --
half his wife's fault, and half her mother's.
When Marriage is Outlawed, Only Outlaws will have Inlaws.
When my freshman roommate at Cornell found out I was Jewish, she was, at
her request, moved to a different room. She told me she didn't think she
had ever seen a Jew before. My only response was to begin wearing a
small Star of David on a chain around my neck. I had not become a more
observing Jew; rather, discovering that the label of Jew was offensive to
others made me want to let people know who I was and what I believed in.
Similarly, after talking to these young women -- one of whom told me that
she didn't think she had ever met a feminist -- I've taken to identifying
myself as a feminist in the most unlikely of situations.
-- Susan Bolotin, "Voices From the Post-Feminist Generation"