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...Late Registration, the syllabus returns to Whitman's Song of Myself. There are skits ridiculing the impoverished members of a made-up black fraternity (Broke Phi Broke), while the song Gold Digger pleads with women to stand by working-class men because "He got that ambition baby look at his eyes/ This week he mopping floors next week it's the fries...
...this being a kiddie flick, I couldn’t resist wondering what kind of message it’s sending to its intended audience. It’s not so complicated, actually. Lohan’s perpetually made-up character is ogled at as much as possible in a G-rated film. As if enacting an English lecture about the oppressive male gaze, the camera lingers on her mini-miniskirted frame as she climbs through a car’s driver seat window and proceeds to floor the gas, all while wearing stilettos...
Fictional biography has one clear advantage over the real thing. Facts that are inaccessible to scholarship may simply be invented. On the other hand, a story of a made-up person can hardly rely on the fame or noteworthiness of its subject to attract and hold readers. So the writer who takes up this curious, hybrid genre assumes a mixed blessing: the freedom to fabricate reality in service of a goal that many may find inconsequential because it is not true. In his eleventh novel, Canadian Author Robertson Davies tackles precisely this problem and turns it into a triumph. What...
Each year the ritual repeats itself: A group of freshmen hire a stripper as a surprise birthday gift for a friend’s party, thinking it’ll be hilarious. But then the stripper—far older and more made-up than they had expected—arrives in a beat-up car with her driver, a 30-something with his arms folded across his chest. After he collects the cash, the clothes come off far too quickly, the naked lap dances and toy shows taking everyone by surprise...
...things. It’s left adults rotting on the couch in front of the TV and adolescents with nothing better to do in the middle of the night than go to Denny’s. Even with everything anyone could ever need, this homogeneity perpetuates a culture of made-up unneeded problems. I wouldn’t be surprised if we start impaling each other with the white pickets off of our fences. This has to stop, and we have to stop it by integrating...