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Similarly, it is silly to claim that no one has ever encountered a demon. Consider, if you will, the extensive literature on demonic possession, a supposedly medieval phenomenon that has shown remarkable legs in our disenchanted world. (It’s worth noting that The Exorcist was based on a true story far more shocking and supernaturally charged than any of Linda Blair’s pea-soupy antics.) Yes, it’s perfectly conceivable that every case of “possession” has some as-yet-undreamt-of medical explanation. But it seems possible...
...some rudimentary understanding of our little sexual universe, maybe more—some?—love could be had by all. I learned this firsthand recently, as I sat down for a face-to-face chat with sophomore Natalie Krinsky, the woman behind the semi-phenomenon that is “Sex and the (Elm) City,” the Yale Daily News’ weekly sex column. Increasingly, Krinsky’s column—which began running this fall—serves the college masses as a sexual bible, (re)introducing wayward undergrads to the joys...
DiFranco fans themselves have become something of a phenomenon. Like many popular musicians, DiFranco has developed a cult follwing, but hers is particularly eclectic and notorious. A friend, before leaving for the show, changed her AOL IM away message to “Me, Ani and 4,000 screaming lesbians” a reference to Ani’s core audience of non-conformist young women. But looking around the Orpheum, there indeed were an awful lot of young women in head scarves, but there were a remarkable amount of men of all ages, and more than a few women...
...Children’s Literature, and later gave a brief question and answer session at the Harvard Film Archive. Mitchell appeared at the request of course instructor and Loeb Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures Maria Tatar after meeting her on the Today Show to discuss the Harry Potter phenomenon. Both hit it off and Mitchell was more than happy to speak as a guest lecturer. During his lecture Mitchell discussed the film versions of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, a key book in Tatar’s course. Though there have been many adaptations of Nabokov?...
Looking at commercials today, Bob Dole is drooling over a gyrating Britney Spears in order to sell Pepsi—an incarnation of the Lolita phenomenon. Though Mitchell feels that in the past children’s films have been less than pleasurable experiences for older moviegoers, he states that films aimed towards children have recently become very savvy and now try to integrate two levels of humor—one aimed at children and another aimed towards parents. Monsters Inc., Shrek, Toy Story 2—all of these films are very clever and include humor that older audiences...