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West is playing an ugly game. He would prefer that the petty bickering of two headstrong academics be seen as a parable about a white power structure uniting to silence a noble black truth-teller. That might satisfy some of his apparently endless penchant for self-pity, but it threatens to poison legitimate racial progress at a university he claims to love...
Hollywood loves comic books, from the Blondie and Dick Tracy B movies of the '30s and '40s to the more recent big-budget franchises of Superman and Batman. There are times (say, every summer) when American movies seem to be one gigantic, endless comic book. The film industry has long been buggy about creepy crawlers too. In the '50s it spawned the mammoth postnuclear monsters of Them (ants) and Tarantula, and 30 years later it bankrolled David Cronenberg's magnificent remake...
...fortune large enough to buy an island and indulging in enough random sex to overpopulate it can get a little wearing. But for Burmese artists and performers, fame is less about feast and more about frustration. Celebrity in this country is minor, yet it is only sustained through an endless series of personal and artistic compromises. Zaw Win Htut owns a cherry red Chevy Impala and has enough money to be considering sending his daughter to an Australian boarding school. These are the fruits of 20 years of performing, again and again, watered-down Burmese covers of rock relics...
...Stith would pay a price for her eagerness to subject me to such ungodly speeds. As I fought an endless battle with the wind to keep my head from snapping backwards, I found myself often overcompensating and sending my head lunging forward into Stith’s. Resembling some sort of primitive form of Neanderthal communication, this inane head-banging ritual continued the entire length of Storrow Drive...
While Hagan didn’t have to learn a special dance, her debutante process monopolized a few months of her life. The summer before her sophomore year of college, she attended the Pastel Ball and then an endless stream of parties—one for each of the 20-odd debutantes. They led up to the culminating event, the Harvest Ball, held over Thanksgiving. “Some of the people were perfectly nice. Lovely manners, very pleasant. But not very interesting,” Hagan says. “I think it was that summer I developed...