Word: authorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ginia Bellafante. The story demands to disturb and repulse, a portrait of a sick mind filled with sexual imagery repellent enough to make Robert Mapplethorpe photos look like Tommy Hilfiger ads by comparison. But the problem with 'Alice' is not so much its barrage of appalling imagery as the author's insistence on using the imagery to make naive, amorphous political statements. Homes says she was inspired to write the book after Jesse Helms' attacks on the National Endowment for the Arts. Unfortunately, she takes it on too obviously. At certain points in the book, her pedophile narrator addresses...
Keohane's work has distinguished him from his colleagues and his legacy speaks for itself. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1961 and began teaching here in 1985. He served as chair of the Government Department from 1988 until 1992. He is the author of such acclaimed works as After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy and International Institutions and State Power, as well as the editor, co-editor or co-author of 11 other books...
...author of a recent 490-page history of that Club (From the Age That Is Past), I know this to be quite untrue and wrote the editor of the Globe to say so, but for reasons which should soon be plain enough, the Globe did not print my letter. All the same, I believe that what I had and have to say is central to the whole controversy. Can I then hope that The Crimson will afford me the hospitality of its columns...
...McCauley's publisher in on this nearly accurate bit of cynicism. There aren't any filthy facts here, no trite wrap-ups--just funny, sustaining fiction. The only resemblance between McCauley's writing and rehab is that you can just check in. Such are the author's fluency and humor ("Nothing is more intimate than the right kind of insult") that the reader can ramble along, smelling the roses...
Nicole M. Souffront '96, who has been wearing the same Argentina hat for the last week for luck in writing about Argentinian author Manuela Rosas, said she planned to stop by the University Wine Shop on the way home "to pick up a couple of things" for herself and her roommates...