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The actress (in last year's action hit Romeo Must Die) and hip-hop soul singer (her third CD, Aaliyah, on Blackground/ Virgin, came out last week) is talking gleefully about a love scene in her next movie. It's Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned, and Aaliyah...
The two possibilities are, in fact, twins - the dark and light sides of the Western intellectual quest. You see the twinning in the Faust legend. In the Medieval reading of it, Faust is damned to hell for his pact to obtain supernatural powers of knowledge from the devil - an act...
Their names teem with a sort of secret Shakespearean life. I browse through field guides to wildflowers and weeds, and when I read them, I feel as if I have rediscovered a rich, hidden vein of the English language-a parallel universe populated by such vivid protagonists as Carrion Flower...
Some say love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed. Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed. ANDRE RISON and LISA ("LEFT EYE") LOPES say love is gunshots and fire, and Bette Midler be damned. After an eight-year, on-again off...
The battle lines are well-defined: Some doctors insist the long hours are a necessary trial by fire that produces highly skilled, virtually unflappable physicians. That point of view is fostered by a sort of hazing mentality most often seen in fraternities and the military ("I went through hell to...