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Vamps & Tramps is an apt title, and not just because, as the author writes, it ``evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism''-- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject, and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in ``the feminist establishment,'' and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair? Nah--fair...
Josh Berson '97 says he always balances his checkbook, one way or another. "I balance it loosely," he says. "If I round up the figures every time I balance, I'm more apt to spend conservatively. It exaggerates my sense of loss...
...bend and spindle Shakespeare to make contemporary points. Declan Donnellan, of Britain's Cheek by Jowl company (on display in Brooklyn this fall), uses the most traditional means -- a bare stage, an all-male cast -- for radical ends. Does cross dressing lead to tatty camp? No, it's an apt way of addressing the crises of eros and identity at the heart of the play, where comic ingenuity escalates into poetic rapture...
Vamps & Tramps is an apt title, and not just because, as the author writes, it "evokes the missing sexual personae of contemporary feminism" -- the drag queens and prostitutes who are the stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject (Amy Fisher, Lorena Bobbitt), and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in "the feminist establishment" (Anita Hill, Catharine MacKinnon), and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting...
...never took antiquity for granted, as Italians were apt to. He always seems to have thought of it as a marvelous spectacle that he, as a foreigner, was privileged to behold. "Questo giovane ha una furia del diavolo," remarked Marino, introducing him to one Roman patron -- This young man has the fury of a devil. Furia didn't simply mean rage; it suggested a state of inspiration, of contact with primeval forces that lie below the surface of culture -- the war god's frenzy, the satyr's beastliness, the erotic abandon of the maenad...