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...couple was not Gable and Lombard but Astaire and Rogers - because Fred and Ginger translated feelings of love, depression, jealousy, joy in the integrated choreography of their bodies. In this more inhibited era, holding a woman or lifting her or spinning her across the ballroom floor was the most explicit metaphor for the whole range of intimacies in a love affair. And it was surpassingly beautiful, enthralling, to watch...
...interpretation of the “University-Wide Statement of Rights and Responsibilities”—added recently by the University’s governing boards—makes explicit that unauthorized occupations of University buildings disruptive to Harvard’s normal activity are unacceptable. The original policy was adopted as a result of the 1969 takeover of University Hall...
...interpretation and accompanying statement come after months of discussion between deans and Summers. A University official said the only significant opposition among the deans came from those who felt that penalties should be stricter and more explicit than those suggested in the final statement...
...dancing has joined the ranks of sports attracting attention for all the wrong reasons. The interesting arrangements of bodies performed by some couples have become rather too explicit, or as they have been dubbed in skating circles, "gynaecological," prompting a senior American judge, Nancy Meiss, to expostulate: "If I want a young man waving his partner's assets in my face, I can rent a porn video. The males are acting like pimps...
...underlying message of both the economic and the security sessions on Thursday, then, was that poverty matters. That theme was picked up and made explicit at the opening plenary - the best I've ever seen at a Davos. Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said "Terrorism and poverty are twins of each other." Bono, in a series of interventions, nagged away at what he called the "annoying" phenomenon of inequality, and challenged the WEF delegates to commit themselves to ameliorating poverty as a goal for this year's conference. He was, of course, warmly applauded. Cynics will tell you that that...