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...scenario for the development of University land in Allston that sees the 100-odd acres of unused land as an ideal science campus grew in prominence after Summers’ arrival (see related story, page...
...Vidal, the worst aspect of 9-11 is the extent to which the terrorist attacks are being used as an excuse to severely curtail American civil liberties (although this seems a little odd coming from an author who wrote a lengthy novel celebrating the man who suspended habeas corpus during the Civil War), and George W. Bush's statement that the terrorists hate us because of "our freedoms, our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other" rings, to Vidal, laughably hollow, since these words are coming from...
...what I am sure is chocolate frosting. It's typical of these smart artist's often surprising approach to the main subject. Unencumbered by pretension and unified by a central theme that everyone can relate to, the series has become one of the best anthologies published today. The twenty-odd stories of each volume use sex as a means to an artistic end, rather than an end to itself. This crucial difference distinguishes art from porn...
...best things about the "Dirty Stories" series is that women participate in it. For years I have wondered what became of Carol Swain, an English artist who did amusing, odd-ball stories in a soft pencil style. Suddenly here she is with "Silicon Valley Rest Home," where impotent, elderly ex-porn stars fall asleep in front of TVs that show tapes of their younger selves. Likewise it takes a woman, Ellen Forney, to include a sexy and educational instructional on how to best use your fingers "for her pleasure." The other non-fiction standout, "My, My American Bukkake," by Susannah...
When he and Davis moved to Los Angeles from Cambridge after graduation, they subsisted on a diet of rice and beans, while working at odd jobs...