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...stars of her cosmology. The title also summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject, and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in ``the feminist establishment,'' and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair? Nah--fair is for wimps. But she is always entertaining, offering vigorous ideas for the open mind to entertain...
...been a while since Mansfield had heard himself speak, and he was itching to get back into the fray. When Professor of Yiddish Literature and of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse implied that the University shouldn't be so self-righteous, he pounced. "You have no respect for Harvard," he hissed. "You don't consider it as anything bigger or grander than yourself, something to which you might be devoted...
Like most National Football League players, New York Jets receiver Rob Moore is accustomed to getting hit hard and jumping right back into the fray. But Thanksgiving weekend, as his team faced the Miami Dolphins, the 6-ft. 3-in., 205-lb. Moore caught a pass and got clocked so badly that he couldn't get up -- at least not for three minutes. When coaches and trainers finally hauled him to his feet, he was so dizzy and disoriented that a team doctor forced him to spend the rest of the game on the bench. Hours later Moore was still...
...summarizes Paglia's method. Toss her a pop-cultural subject (Amy Fisher, Lorena Bobbitt), and she'll vamp on it, often brilliantly. Invoke her prim sisters in "the feminist establishment" (Anita Hill, Catharine MacKinnon), and she'll tramp on them with the Cuban heels of her rhetoric. Into any fray she bursts, a media Medusa, a Valkyrie for hire, Penthesilea fighting for Amazon rights. Is she fair? Nah -- fair is for wimps. But she is always entertaining, offering vigorous ideas for the open mind to entertain...
...this newest attempt to confound democracy, another branch of government has entered the fray. The state referendum repealing rent control won't be able to take effect until the courts decide whether the conduct of the vote was constitutional, a Suffolk Country appellate judge ruled last Friday...