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...beginning, we were all members of hunter-gatherer tribes. The desire to brave the competition in a quest to attain a desired object of prey is as old as humankind itself. But Primitive People had it easier. As civilization dawned there were no papers to write, no problem sets to do, tasks that make it difficult to set aside time to flex those ancient hunter-gatherer muscles...
...admit he's not the most original object for my daydreams. But I can't help it-every time I walk into a video store, I head straight past the new releases, the horror movies and the comedy...
...Harvard were not giving any money to ROTC,Lin says, he would still object to thediscrimination but would not mind Harvard'sacceptance of the scholarships...
...Boston's Salem 66, another riff-oriented all-female trio. Which raises the question of whether there's a separate tradition of all-female bands, stretching from the Raincoats on, whose sounds owe more to one another than they do to any male-fronted predecessors. Scrawl used to object strenuously to any such assertion when interviewers made it; its true that none of these bands sound much like the Raincoats, and it's also true that even talking about some kind of rock "ecriture feminine" risks shunting all the bands under discussion off into a kind of sidekick phenomenon, making...
...according to Koestenbaum. No matter how much opera means in his life, "no opera queen's apartment is that organized" and "no opera queen would have opera on in the background", waiting to be turned up at the appropriate moment. Contrast this with Koestenbaum's explanation of feeling "object" before the "subject" of the soprano voice. Tom Hanks never loses center stage of Maria Callas. Were that to happen, his status as hero of the film might be in question; opera would serve no longer as one aspect of his gay personality but as a consuming addiction that stigmatized...