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Straight people have embraced some pretty gay songs over the years (the Village People's Y.M.C.A., Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Relax, the Queen catalog). You can interpret this as the gradual acceptance of gay culture or as the mainstream's enduring obliviousness to it. (The Village People did not drop by the YMCA to pump iron.) Now here's a song about coming out to Mom by a group named after a lesbian sex act. You'd think only Liza Minnelli could mistake them for straight. But Take Your Mama also happens to be the most complete pop tune...
Morrissey had entire decades of despondency. The precise nature of his depression can be divined from his back catalog, which still sells briskly and is full of hopelessness (Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now), tentative homoeroticism (Hand in Glove) and rage at the hypocrisy of authority figures (Margaret on the Guillotine). At 45, Morrissey--his seldom used first name is Steven--has not changed his character; he remains sensitive and defiant, with a lacerating wit. But he has changed his life. In 1998 he left his native England for Los Angeles, where he lives in a house built for Clark...
...woman looks out. Who is lonelier, the woman or the watcher looking at her? And what gives his work its unmistakable haunting atmosphere? Hopper himself wasn't much of a guide. He was somewhat reclusive, and discussed his work only in the most general way. He wrote in the catalog for his 1933 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan: "My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impressions of nature." Nor was he particularly illuminating when he told TIME in 1948: "You know how beautiful things are when...
...role of federal M.P.s has been evolving, especially in marginal seats. They've become akin to ombudsmen - guiding constituents through the bureaucratic maze, solving problems, listening to voters' concerns, urging them to take action. The by-product of this intimacy is that the sitting M.P. is able to catalog these concerns into a precise demographic and issues database; for instance, any decent M.P. in a marginal seat should be able to list the top five issues for 40-ish working mothers or know what self-funded retirees want. This data can then be channeled to the back-room party wizards...
...thinking about these courses seems to be the potential marketing of them,” he wrote in an e-mail, referring to the report’s suggestion that the proposed Harvard College Courses be “flagship courses, listed at the front of the course catalog...