Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some respects, alma mater in Anno Domini 2000 will look pretty much the way she does now. "Madonna reinvents herself every season," is the dry observation of Sheldon Hackney, president of the University of Pennsylvania. "Universities are much more stable." Nonetheless, experts foresee quite a few changes -- good as well as bad -- for America's diverse complex of private and public institutions of higher learning. Items...
Levine's writing style is fluid and lucid. She fills the pages with witty and original analyses of interviews, overheard conversations, films, comic strips, songs, comedians, television programs, psychological/scientific studies, magazine articles and books. She covers a range of female personalities from Madonna to Mary Beth Whitehead to Ann Landers to strangers in the supermarket...
...knows and values such an antique and, even in its day, exotic film tradition is minuscule. What does the rest of the audience care that it exerts a continuing influence on films noirs and, for that matter, on Batman? For those people, Allen has recruited an astonishing cast, from Madonna to John Malkovich, from Jodie Foster to John Cusack, and they ground their symbolic characters in a recognizable reality...
...minutes" come when she tries out for Adam's commercial, putting Madonna to shame while she sucks down a French soda and oozes, "Le Rican, me donne le bon temps" (the American gives me a good time). One of the funniest moments in the play, her chemistry with Adam is electric and of course, leads to the "casting couch...
...Madonna too became a symbol in the '80s of a maturing feminism, at least in the eyes of flame-throwing author Camille Paglia, who considers herself a feminist. "Madonna has enabled the young women of the world to recover their sexuality and yet to remain assertive, independent beings," Paglia says. "She was able to fuse this overt and almost pornographic sexuality as a woman with this dominant, managerial aptitude. It has been an extraordinary influence on women...