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...their music gay? Folk music itself is a political form and deeply entrenched in the 1970s lesbian-power movement. The Indigo Girls themselves are two gay ladies. But their songs rarely touch on gay topics. The Indigo Girls are not known for explicit anthems or same-gendered love songs. Yet so much about an Indigo Girls show is very...
Behind the explicit language, personal tone and sometimes infantile humor of these "new German girls" lies a set of concerns that is more visceral - if also more self-absorbed - than a previous generation's fight for equality and respect. "This generation of women dares to declare that there are other things in life than either career or children," says Christel Eckhart, a sociologist and professor of gender studies at Kassel University. This is not entirely new. Since the late 1990s, Berlin's vibrant musical underground has featured women who undermine gender clichés through in-your-face sexual behavior...
...Uneasy or not, Rogers is expanding on the agenda of cross-school fundraising, assembling a new team of development officers this year with the explicit aim of “serving the University more broadly.” Even a few months before the end of the fiscal year, Rogers’ office has already raised more for interdisciplinary enterprises than the development office did all of last year...
...creatively fuzzy when asked directly if he would meet with Ahmadinejad - and he has begun to point out that the real leaders of Iran are the clerics led by the Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, who controls Iran's foreign policy and its nuclear program. Obama has also been explicit about the need to start with lower-level talks, a presidential summit coming only if there were progress in those negotiations. In his previous, straight-talking incarnation, McCain would have allowed Obama the modifications to his shorthand answer and debated the issue on the merits. Not this year...
...Cannes festival was complete without some sexually explicit film to stoke outrage and fill screening rooms. Those randy days are long gone, and this year the only erotic hoo-hah was for this intimate German drama about, to get right to the point, naked old people making love - but nothing explicit, danke. Inge (Ursula Werner), a plain hefty woman in her early 60s, is more or less happily married to 70-something Werner (Horst Rehberg), whose idea of excitement is to listen to recordings of model-train sound effects. No wonder she goes for the slightly sprightlier Karl (Horst Westphal...