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...knowing about sex.” Despite this serious-sounding message, Locker’s presentation was interactive and interspersed with sexual jokes and innuendoes, drawing plenty of laughs from the attentive audience. Early in the seminar, Locker called to the front three female volunteers, who she positioned to model the female anatomy. Two of the women represented the labia while one represented the clitoris. “Now how does an orgasm happen?” Locker asked the audience. She answered by patting the head of the girl playing the clitoris, who then jumped up and down...
...believes that the first hundred years of movies possess treasures that the last few years can't touch - and that's most of the professional film folks I know - TCM is an utterly essential part of the culture, our own American cinematheque. I can't imagine what the business model is, and I don't want anyone to ask, since TCM is owned by the same media company that pays my salary. Whatever it is, the network remains free of commercials. All movies, and movie specials, all the time. (See the All TIME 100 Movies...
...DVDs. Maybe there is a business model: Feltenstein uses the network to promote the classic DVD collection, and vice versa. The video stores and Netflix are groaning with TCM collections, the best being three editions of Forbidden Hollywood, multipacks of Warner and MGM films from the pre-Code era that TCM helped revive. (Must-buy: Vol. 3, with a half-dozen rough diamonds directed by William A. Wellman.) Last month TCM began offering personalized movies: you choose a title from a list of films that haven't yet made it to DVD, pay about $15, and get one of these...
...says, “but I hope to change that.” He fosters undergraduate excitement about ceramics by producing “Clay All Night,” an all-night biannual event where he teaches students to use the pottery wheel and model clay. He has also demonstrated pot-making techniques for archeology classes and has shown his own work at art shows around campus and in Boston art galleries. Surprisingly, his love of ceramics has played into his chosen field of neurobiology: “You need an artistic...
...Left Act of 2001—which aimed to close the racial achievement gap—expected later this year, the Obama administration may see an opportunity to alter the way national education policy addresses the achievement gap issue. Ferguson said there is widespread support for transitioning to a model of accountability that measures relative gains in achievement compared to past years rather than relying on the absolute benchmarks currently in use. “It is not just about rules or threatening districts with sanctions for poor performance: it’s about creating opportunities for our [ideal] education...