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...postmodern appropriation. Always on the lookout for new material, Madonna is an artistic migrant--she moves from subject to subject, from body to body, to claim (or reclaim) a plot of the cultural landscape. Whether it's S&M, Indian yoga, geisha fashion, or now ruby slippers and cowboy gear, Madonna inhabits each new specter so effortlessly and completely that we have to believe her. Sure, she can't act onscreen but the reason is so painfully obvious: Madonna's entire career relies on our ability to accept each of her new incarnations as genuine. Not only is she baffled...
Heading into B.C., Harvard will look to focus its efforts and gear up for the continuation of the Ivy schedule against Yale this weekend...
...gear at 10 a.m. on Monday mornings? Visit Lowell House Master Diana...
...Even the 100-degree temperature and nearly 100 percent humidity don't seem to slow him down. It is only when he reaches the hamlet of Mason's Bend and the home of Alberta Bryant that this bear of a man with a bushy graying beard slips into low gear and momentarily seems to surrender to the heat. Plopping down on Bryant's couch, Mockbee rests his straw hat to the side and catches up with one of his studio's earliest clients...
...little impatient because he wants his brother-in-law Terry to have the complete collection before he dies. He's already given his fishing gear to another brother-in-law. He divvied up his two gemstone rings and a gold necklace among his sisters and has bequeathed his soft-rock CD collection to Twilia, who has similar musical tastes. "That's about all I have," he notes matter-of-factly. Making the decisions himself about what happens to his few possessions lets him feel better--so much better that his health has actually improved a bit since he rejected further...