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...your parents and the community. That’s much harder to do when your frame of reality is so fundamentally changed,” says Ann E. Chernicoff ‘03, who moved 3,000 miles from her native Berkeley, Calif., and went from being a casual Reform Jew to a committed member of the Hillel community. “If you’ve always been told that you belong to this tradition, there’s a place to turn, at least initially, and to say, does this have anything to say to me? Can this...
...show offers a thorough look at both refined artistic successes and examples of a more casual working out of visual problems on paper. The pieces displayed are best characterized by an inherent tension. They vibrate with energy and visual force as they reveal the artist’s struggles to eliminate boundaries between drawing and painting, while probing figurative elements for their fundamental abstract forms. They read as transparent entries in the diary of the mind: betraying clearly on the surface the profound influences of artists such as Picasso and Gorky on de Kooning’s development...
...somebody who would be my friend, in the sense of what I didn't have. I was their age, on one level. The physical contact, the touch, was not in the strictest sense sexual. But the lust would take over at a certain point. I didn't see the casual physical contact as wrong. But when I would go to the genital contact, I had no doubt about that being wrong. I didn't think of it as harmful, really, but I knew it was morally wrong...
...other hand, the auteur of Seven and Fight Club has never had a gift for making his characters likable (though Forest Whitaker does what he can to humanize one of the robbers). His talent is for sadism that is at once passionate and casual--and for turning what might be perfectly enjoyable genre films into faux-modernist art objects: ambitious but also cold, ugly and distancing...
...hopeful each time, because for nearly two decades Oprah has brought us nothing but pain and heartache. Oprah is the opiate of the female masses, teaching them to build self-esteem by confronting the past and setting goals instead of feeling good the old-fashioned way: by having casual sex. She encourages women to look inside and "find their passion" without once entertaining the possibility that this passion might be fed with lots of sleeping around. Worse yet, she sets all these ridiculous expectations about reading once a month...