Word: khan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...faculty dynamics in the department speeded this shift in attitude at Harvard. According to Winter, popular Fine Arts 13 teachers Porter Professor of Fine Arts, Emeritus James S. Ackerman and Khan Professor of Islamic Art, Emeritus Oleg Grabar retired in the late 1980s. They were replaced by new professors with new ideologies...
...precisely that--everything you remember from "When Doves Cry", and "Little Red Corvette" up until the recent "Diamonds and Pearls" and "7". And for the uninitiated there are the pleasant surprises, reclaimed versions of two Prince-penned tunes--"Nothing Compares 2 U" and "I Feel For You" (Remember Chaka Khan...
BABE-Y, my honey, my sugar-coated Chaka Khan and the sax-ed UP moanin' & breathin' & shiverin' & shakin' with Rufus, wah-wahed whistled Tell Me Something Good "I have something that sure nuff should set yer stuff on fire," yer staff is higher, and she takes the shit SERIOUSLY, tell me that ya love ME. Tell me that ya love...
...Khan's agenda -- war and atrocity -- is still pursued, although with less candor about the pleasure involved: some tribal or nationalist rationale ("Greater Serbia!") is proclaimed. Even after the cold war has ended as big-battle war seems to have become extinct -- the Gulf War perhaps a last set piece of tank warfare -- parvenu nations tinker in their basements with homemade nukes. Even more ominous is the global inundation of handy conventional weapons, a planetary democratization of firepower trickling down to Third World villages and the hip pockets of American schoolchildren...
...demeans her hero, a blobby, unfocused man named Quoyle, as "a dog dressed in a man's suit for a comic photo," who possesses "a great damp loaf of a body." His faithless wife is "thin, moist, hot . . . in another time, another sex, she would have been a Genghis Khan." After they marry, her "desire reversed to detestation like a rubber glove turned inside out." But as Quoyle heads to Newfoundland and fumbles through life as a newspaperman, the author eases up and allows an occasional smile...