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One of the better literary jokes of the past few years is Anne Rice's portrayal of vampires -- actually gray-suited Pat Buchanan-type homophobes who wouldn't risk a Paisley tie, most of them -- as mincing exquisites. Boldly and impudently, she has caricatured the gaudy world of high-camp...
The Year of the Woman must have come as a surprise to the many who have written feminism's obituary over the years. In the 1980s feminism was supposed to have been supplanted by mild-mannered, skirt-suited "postfeminists" who wanted nothing more than a reliable baby-sitter and a...
THE STYLISH, WELL-HEELED CROWD packing the aisles of the second Santa Fe Wine and Chile Fiesta knew a hot trend when they saw it -- and tasted it. Between sips of Chardonnay, about 2,000 "chileheads" dressed in pepper-print shirts, skirts and ties spent four days sampling chile dishes...
When mild mannered classical archaeology concentrator David Rogers '92 left Harvard, and took his high-caliber comic strip "Dim Wits" along with him, The crimson had to fill the void with several syndicated strips. Although it was high praise for Rogers that his strip could only be replaced with several...
But you don't have to know any of this to enjoy Turangalila. Written for large orchestra, including an eerie electronic instrument called the ondes martenot (memorably employed by Maurice Jarre in the score for Lawrence of Arabia), the symphony is like some fabulous beast howling in the collective unconscious...