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...With Madonna's sidekick in the line-up, the Green Monster could come tumbling down. He'll steal 40 bases, and hopefully will use his head a bit less this year...
Academics ought to have a longer shelf life than pop stars. So maybe Madonna wasn't such a swell role model for Camille Paglia, a humanities professor at Philadelphia's University of the Arts. Sexual Personae, a rambunctious survey of gender identities published in 1990, made Paglia into feminism's Material Girl. In a whiny time that sanctified women as victims, she celebrated woman's erotic and emotional majesty. Just like that, she was the hot intellectual starlet...
Alas, she loved notoriety even more than it loved her. The huffy reception being given Vamps & Tramps (Vintage; 532 pages; $15), her paperback volume of new and recent essays, journalism, TV interviews and effluvia, suggests that Paglia is in her 16th minute of fame -- like Madonna at her current ebb with an exasperated public. This is a shame, since it discounts Paglia's rangy, roguish intelligence and genius for mischiefmaking...
Swing's first section sells itself a "guide to the hipper things in life." It contains short briefs on current yuppie trends: indoor rock climbing, coffee houses with computer ports, poetry slams, cigars for women as smoked by Madonna, which bars are "hot" in New York this month and what to drink when you go to them. One column contains advice on how to arrange antiques in your dilapidated apartment; another presents an inquiry on who should pay the check...
...Music: Madonna shows a softer side...