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...problem with current women-in-peril films is they've got the peril but not the deep emotional resonance," observes Camille Paglia, the post-feminist author and agitator. "They're driven by gimmicky, high-concept plots. But the center of great women's pictures is the long close-up of a woman's soulful, suffering face as her eyes brim with tears. Today's actresses are too buff and brittle to take that kind of scrutiny...Too many know how to do everything but play real women. If the women-in-jeopardy motif can make filmmakers start to think...
...scorned; Sim Rosedale (La Paglia), another of Lily's suitors, earns scowls because he was crude enough to earn his money instead of inheriting it. But Lily has no wealth to cushion her fall. Her old, sure sashay down garden paths is now a scurry along tenement streets; she is afraid of being seen by those who once were pleased to say they knew...
...innovations, though, is his choreography, which crossbreeds the time-tested language of ballet with the high energy and cool irony of pop culture. The results, though sometimes too glibly "accessible," are more often bracingly individual. This season, for example, has seen company premieres of Fluctuating Hemlines, inspired by Camille Paglia's iconoclastic Sexual Personae; Carmina Burana, an unabashedly sexy dance pageant accompanied by Carl Orff's thunderous choral settings of medieval poems about love and lust; and Juanita y Alicia, a "family album" set to Buena Vista Social Club-type music performed live by Sin Miedo, a Washington-based Latino...
...Even those who say they have sympathies for Paglia's opinions say Harvard is the wrong target...
...think that Paglia's critique is valid," says Ross G. Douthat '02, the editor of the conservative Harvard Salient...