Friendship & desire: Augustine reviews `Will & Grace'.

From: Commonweal | Date: September 27, 2002| Author: Kaveny, Cathleen | Copyright information

Will and Grace are the main characters in NBC's wildly successful sitcom about the relationship between a gay man of deliberate sensibility (he's a lawyer) and a free-spirited straight woman (she's an interior designer) who share a New York City apartment. As Catholics of a certain age and education will also know, "will" and "grace" are also the main categories used by Augustine to map the complicated terrain of the human psyche.

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