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...Sylvia Plath with the ego of Madonna,” was how the New York Times Book Review described her at that point. Despite its autobiographical cast, Prozac Nation was universalized into a cultural moment, packaged as a symbol and embraced into a canon of disaffected Gen-X plaints. The book has since been adapted into a film starring Christina Ricci and will be released by Miramax...
...feminist—somewhere between the pioneer figures and the second generation—I was deeply involved in rethinking the French canon,” Schor told the Harvard Gazette shortly after she came to the University...
This week, the world gently weeps not for the Beatles but for its quietest member. Harrison leaves behind a number of accomplishments which will be remembered. As part of the Beatles, Harrison left his indelible mark on their canon and on rock and roll—his love for “hillbilly” music which manifested itself in earlier songs like “All My Loving” and “Can’t Buy Me Love;” “Something,” his most well-known composition; and the introduction...
Speaking of snowballs: The most random track on the album is not the token traditional piece, “Christmas Canon,” performed by the ever-reliable Trans-Siberian Orchestra (and really, what’s Christmas without an orchestral suite by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra?), but rather “Snowball,” in which the versatile Jimmy Fallon imitates a bad high school garage band vocalist with his screams of, “Snowball snowball snowball fight...
...increase? One word: community. "The church is still one of the main ways for people to be with each other and with God," says Canon Jim Rosenthal of the Anglican Communion. In good times, people may not feel a need for the security that faith can provide. But the attacks shook the status quo, says Henry Paasonen, senior pastor of the Berlin International Church, prompting "consciousness of the preciousness of life and how disaster can terminate that so suddenly...