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...like kudzu, has always existed opportunistically, moving unchecked through the cultural biomass until it finds a niche, then setting down roots. It long ago took hold on such improbable places as the fenders of racing cars and the insides of matchbook covers. The fact that logos and promotions now bloom on the uniforms of professional athletes, in the blinking screens of Internet data and even on the skin of the sad banana ought to be no surprise...
...already know that Shakespeare virtually invented English. If we are to believe America's critic in chief, the playwright also invented human nature. In this tome the self-styled "Bloom Brontosaurus Bardolater" offers play-by-play essays that are a humane hymn to Shakespeare's continuing relevance as our "mortal god." If he does not quite prove his tremendous thesis, the author of The Western Canon amiably excuses himself on the ground that "explaining Shakespeare is an infinite exercise; you will become exhausted long before the plays are emptied out." Bloom may feel spent after 745 pages, but his essays...
...blue face and wild white hair has come between a clan v.p. and a cute blond. The PuNK pOsSe group is hanging out on South Park Avenue; the No Limit guys are at Cartman's House. A naked Def Squad girl cruises Avatar Ranch. An anonymous admirer makes flowers bloom at the feet of Pink Glove in Wendy's Backyard. Oh, and the Mona Lisa head in the blinking, multicolored Apple baseball cap who's floating from room to room taking this all in? That would...
...price of admission? Thanks to an enlightened, let-a-thousand-palaces-bloom distribution policy, the client software you need to visit palaces is free (at www.thepalace.com) as is the server software that lets you build your...
Wilson could have drawn upon plenty of otherexamples where Harvard College has catered to theneeds of its women: the Women's Initiative fundedby a $1.25 million gift from James R. Houghton '58and Maisie K. Houghton '62, a new women'sleadership award funded by the $50,000 TerrieFried Bloom '75 endowment, the celebration ofco-residency in the Yard last fall and a recentgift from Amy Smith Berylson '75 to sponsor anannual lecture featuring women professionals...