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The week's events include a faculty talent show at Paine Hall on Thursday night. Acts in past years have ranged from stand-up comedy to Beavis and Butthead imitations.
See, I actually believed in the promise of cyberspace--that we could reach out over the barriers of age, race, geography and gender, and truly connect. No one would ever be lonely anymore. Writing would become a mass art form. Democracy would flourish as millions of people logged on to...
Then luck struck. Director James Cameron cast him in what could have been a no-impact supporting role in True Lies. Thanks in part to his sly, scene-stealing comic turn as Arnold Schwarzenegger's loud, loutish best friend, the movie was boffo in 1994 ($146 million gross). Arnold instantly...
The conservatives' agenda, if it goes through, is going to depress the quality of cultural and educational life for everyone in America, young and old, white, black, brown, male or female. This is one of the most ill-conceived, profoundly anti-democratic ideas ever to get loose in Congress. Private...
Ultimately, culture reflects society -- for a violent nation, violent amusements. But if Senator Dole and his fellow conservatives are serious about elevating American tastes, they'd do better to encourage greater variety in culture than to seek to homogenize it even further. Let them increase the NEA budget until it...