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There’s merit to Impact’s concern about common objections to beauty pageants—that they demean women by putting them on display as physical marvels devoid of personality. Pageant consultants teach contestants to layer on the make-up, rip off the wax, fill out the bra, and above all else, not to think too much. Interviews are not about authenticity; they’re about practice. Winning competitors must manufacture an identity and, in so doing, discard emotion and intellect in search of validation...
...course, there were some individual works of merit that managed to stand out, including Kara Walker’s recent aggressive charcoal drawings (Brent Sikkema, New York); Serse’s stunning pencil drawing (Galleria Continua, San Gimignano); Patrick Jacob’s viewing lens “The Ortho Rooms, Dandelions” (Pierogi, Brooklyn); and Jee Sung Lee’s striking black and white ink jet print “Connect” (Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago). Perhaps unfortunately, the Armory Show’s environment of an art fair is less than a conducive setting...
That guy does indeed merit a stinging backhand slap and an eyeful of hot coffee. But that doesn’t mean we have to back off entirely and have the IOP, the UC, and the editorial pages of a few publications have a monopoly on intellectual debate. It is, in fact, okay to talk about topics other than who got to second base with who last weekend and whether that disrespects some other person she’s “quasi-dating.” Just don’t make it a place to show off your...
...their woman. I’ve always been the hardy type, as far as that’s defined by participation in pseudo-outdoorsy elementary school extracurriculars and L.L. Bean purchases. As a Girl Scout I dutifully earned my “Camping and the Outdoors” merit badge and pinned it on my sash right between the “Overthrow the Oppressive Patriarchy” badge and the “Tool of the Cookie-Selling Establishment” badge. I wear fleece. I own a Nalgene. With this background in ruggedness, 47 days in the wilderness...
...rankings, Cornell is, in theory, one place out of an at-large bid. To advance to NCAAs, then, Cornell must either win the ECAC tournament and claim the automatic bid that goes along with it, or else bump its PairWise rankings up high enough to merit an at-large bid. Certainly, the ECAC as a whole would prefer the latter because it’s the only way the conference will get two teams into the NCAAs...