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Paglia’s collection of “forty-three of the world’s best poems” in English, each paired with a brief critical essay, has all the passion and eloquence of the volume’s title. The phrase “break, blow, burn” is drawn from a sonnet by the seventeenth-century poet John Donne, but here it has a decidedly contemporary ring...
...Calcutta, Sen moved to Cambridge, Mass. at the age of 12, where she attended public and alternative schools before becoming an undergraduate English concentrator at Harvard. After college, she taught in a small international school in the foothills of the Himalayas, an experience that helped her realize her passion for teaching and eventually motivated her to return to the United States to get her Ph.D. Sen became fascinated with Anglophone literature. “I had all kinds of questions,” she says. “How did I, as a girl who grew up in Calcutta, know...
...Berlin's main nightlife drags. Find a place in the cozy back room and watch the tropical fish as you sip a Bellini, a champagne cocktail with peach juice. Try the green temptation, an award-winning house creation made of butterscotch, coconut and melon liqueurs and kiwi, lemon and passion-fruit juice. Windhorst 65 Dorotheenstrasse, tel: (49-30) 20450070 Günter Windhorst doesn't have it easy: his bar is located next to the U.S. embassy, and post-9/11 security nearly blocked the entrance. But it's worth crossing the security line to sample the bar's downtown...
...left is clenched, still fighting. In the last version his head is hanging, his mother and friend embracing the cross and the body. There's no more need for beautifying: their humanity shines out. The overall effect is almost voyeuristic, which, for once, is appropriate; the mixture of religious passion and secular skill makes us all the more grateful that these drawings escaped the bonfire...
...bizarre and uncool an activity as synchronized swimming. For a couple of decades, dance has been self-expression, of an orgiastic, onanistic sort, not connection and communion with a partner of a different gender. Yet the show demonstrated, as Take the Lead does, the blend of precision and passion in an expert dance number. One girl in Take the Lead, watching a couple execute a hot tango, marvels that "It's like sex on hardwood." The contestants on Dancing With the Stars often lacked polish. But look, ma, they're sort-of dancing, in a way she might remember with...