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...Forum remained a Cambridge phenomenon for its first three seasons, inviting little-known expert guests to small, off-air discussion groups to increase awareness on a local level. In 1970, Bob Ferrante, currently the executive producer of NPR’s Morning Edition in Boston, discovered the sessions and asked to record them for radio. Most recently, the show has expanded onto the internet, offering many of its past shows in streaming RealAudio format for download...
Interpol’s full length debut, Turn on the Bright Lights, has catapulted them from an underground New York City phenomenon to the national stage. Catch them with Elefant, another New York act, and the Occasion before they get too famous. 7 p.m., $20 general admission, 18+. Avalon, 15 Lansdowne St., Boston...
...attributes the real success of Bush and other recent Yale grads-cum candidates to a monkey-see, monkey-do phenomenon...
...today’s world, which sets up enough roadblocks for women and minorities independently, focusing on how successful professional women of color have overcome these double barriers is a phenomenon worth closer scrutiny. For black women, it seems that in a hidden and unprofessed way, we often choose being ‘black’ over being ‘women’; to choose otherwise would be some sort of tacit betrayal of our race. We therefore find ourselves denying the ways in which our identities both as minorities and as women are both deeply important...
...they weren't only Germans?were the same ones who condemned her afterward. Her fascination with Adolf Hitler wasn't different from anyone else's at that time. In the prewar era, a passion for Hitler, whether it was blind faith or political maneuvering, was a common phenomenon. Was Riefenstahl's art fascist at that time? One must ask whether there ever was a country that didn't praise itself or its people. Isn't the human striving for godlike perfection, as captured in Riefenstahl's film Olympia, a trait shared by all humans? She achieved the highest form...