Word: enlightenedness
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And rather than sensitively exploring the complexities of constructing gender in a pre-Judith Butler world, the movie’s incessantly pat heteronormativity borders on the offensive: Kynston can’t be a man again until he sleeps with a woman, and there are repeated jokes about how...
DIED. JACQUES DERRIDA, 74, French philosopher and intellectual demigod; of pancreatic cancer; in Paris. Born into a Jewish family in Algeria, he earned his reputation with a series of philosophical works that combined daunting academic virtuosity with an enlightened playfulness. A man of immense charm, he was the godfather of...
DIED. JANET LEIGH, 77, coolly seductive Hollywood star, who earned immortality as the cinema's prime slasher victim in Hitch-cock's Psycho; in Beverly Hills. She could have settled for being Tony Curtis' wife (for 11 years) and Jamie Lee's mother. But Leigh had a gaze as alert...
“It’s been many years since anyone at Harvard (anyone who is moderately enlightened) has implied that tenuring more women would be fulfilling a quota or giving in to pressure,” Nancy Tobin ’49, research chair for the Committee for...
It's The Economy, Drongo AUSTRALIA As the Oct. 9 election nears, polls show the rivals - the coalition led by Prime Minister John Howard, and Mark Latham's Labor party - neck-and-neck. You might predict that Howard would press his staunch support for the war in Iraq. After all...