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There was once a brilliantly happy time in my life: the halcyon days before my thesis. In those days I wore makeup and tried to get people to go to absinthe bars. Now I watch old Britney Spears videos and cry in the library at 2 a .m. I am wretchedly altered, I must admit. If I had an engagement to a sailor who returned after years at sea and saw me now, he would probably say the same. I ritualistically avoid public places. I guzzle three cups of coffee a day. My paleness could inspire 16th-century poetry...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Of Libraries and Leggings | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

...Britney Spears: Give up your babies. Oh wait...

Author: By Lauren J. Vargas, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 THINGS CELEBS SHOULD GIVE UP FOR LENT | 2/20/2008 | See Source »

...Nestled in the warm embrace of MTV, record companies could drop millions on clips in which Mariah Carey could ride jet skis in a wet suit with a plunging neckline. Michael Jackson could seduce Eddie Murphy’s wife in Ancient Egypt over the course of nine minutes. Britney Spears could do it again—on Mars. By comparison, music videos today find themselves without a home. So in one sense, it’s very nice of art museums to try and give them a new home. More than any other kind of institution, art museums have...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Putting MTV in the MFA | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...first place). After the film's release, Burstein launched the site "to register, engage, and mobilize America's youth," as the site's mission statement reads. As for why he started the organization, Burnstein tells Politico: "There is a tendency to categorize our generation as obsessed with Angelina, Britney and Xboxes. But more than ever, our generation wants to make a difference; we just have no reason to believe politics is a way of doing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Online Resource Guide For Young Voters | 1/31/2008 | See Source »

...know that I'm no good," she sings with remarkable power and sinew in another song, and it's not a boast, though her put-downs of the men who would take advantage of her certainly are. Throughout, she's mouthy, funny, sultry and quite possibly crazy, yet unlike Britney Spears or a dozen other pop idiot savants, Winehouse not only knows who she is but is able to express it in a way that's often beautiful and meaningful to others. Traditionally, we call that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trouble Woman | 1/24/2008 | See Source »

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