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...Seen together, the most striking works that emerged out of Rodin and Claudel's long entanglement make a fever chart of their afflicted romance. At its height they both produced delirious representations of sexual passion. The acrobatic lovers of Rodin's I Am Beautiful -the male figure hoists a bundled woman into the air-are emblems of himself and her. So are the dancers in the erotic cyclone that is Claudel's The Waltz...
...fame was largely due to his masterful painting of scenes charged with emotion. Much of it was sexual tension: while female models did not seem to arouse any particular passion in the painter, young boys with dreamy and inviting looks are a recurrent theme in his work...
...with: “Did you see that movie where…,” “Wasn’t Nicole Kidman’s face…,” or “I wanted to kill this obnoxious kid during ‘The Passion of the Christ’ when….” All we’ve been hearing about are our fellow students’ lame beach houses in New Jersey and their “totally inspiring, way artistically enlightening” $10,000 jaunts through Western Europe. Where...
...Shoes,” two sisters, Maggie and Rose Feller, share nothing in common but shoes, both in their mutual passion for footwear and in their size 8-1/2 feet. Rose (Toni Collette) is a Princeton-educated attorney, short and kind of frumpy. Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is her party-animal kid sister, embarrassingly idiotic yet able to seduce any man she targets. Maggie bums off of Rose’s couch and they establish a somewhat reciprocal, primarily parasitical, relationship, in which Maggie updates Rose on the latest fashions (“1994 called—it wants...
...question the legitimacy of any required course, no matter its quality. Ethan L. Gray ’05-‘06 argues that well-meaning attempts to create “well-rounded” students can prevent them from developing “a profoundly important value: passion.” “Imposing” a curriculum, as he argues, only serves to turn students off to learning. Thomas Wolf ’05 worries about the University’s desire to create students of a specific “mold” and argues...