Word: intersectional
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...this point that fiction and fact violently intersect. For the James Ellroy novel on which Brian De Palma's movie is based, weaves many of the known facts of the infamous (and unsolved) murder of 1947 into its fictional narrative. The crime was about as grisly as any ever recorded: the nude body of an aspiring movie actress named Betty Short was discovered in an empty lot in Los Angles. It was severed in two and forensic evidence indicated that she had been tortured and sodomized before death, with her organs removed and the blood drained from her body after...
Interestingly, Gray chooses to enclose this achievement of realism within a frame narrative that is pure fantasy. The story of Lanark, a young amnesiac who inhabits a strange, dystopian world, neatly bookends Thaw’s. The two narratives never directly intersect: to Lanark, Thaw is only a character in a story told to him in a hospital (admittedly, a story that takes up two hundred pages...
...It’s awesome...I walk into those things and not have to explain everything. I feel so much solidarity with other mixed people,” Chaterji says. “When people’s identities intersect in the same way, when you have enough people like that, it’s enough to form a group...
...academic work (à la the Cornel West scandal). If the Corporation selects a new president who stays out of the academic fray, our problems will be gone. But quarantining our problems won’t solve them; if Harvard is to grow, academics and administration cannot help but intersect. Increasing international opportunities, channeling more research funding into the sciences, and coordinating academic work across disciplines and schools requires exactly the support an intermediary administration provides. And then there’s Allston, the first University-wide project to be planned and budgeted as a single entity. Without a president...
...next year on sabbatical, Dunster pre-law tutor Martin S. Bell ’03 offered the president a spot on his new fantasy baseball league. “You’ve got some time on your hands coming up, and your interests in economics and baseball could intersect there,” said Bell, who is also a Crimson editor. “There’s a spot if you want it.” “Now if you had a tennis team, that would be something different,” Summers responded...