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Among the many reasons to see Robert Altman’s new film “A Prairie Home Companion” this June, Meryl Streep’s performance might just top them all: viewers have the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to actually witness what Streep would be like as a mediocre entertainer. The imperial actress plays against her austere character type, transforming into second-rate country singer Yolanda Johnson on set of the final broadcast of Garrison Keillor’s live radio variety show.“My character’s supposed...
...because Paglia has such a unique perspective to offer. Always willing to take a controversial stance in her political and cultural commentary, Paglia is also uncompromising in her aesthetic judgments. She conspicuously—and, she said, purposefully—did not include the works of respected poets like Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Seamus Heaney in her anthology (see the Sidebar). Hearing her reasons for their exclusion is important. Her analysis of 43 of the world’s most overrated poems would be delightful, infuriating, and a required read for anyone who cares about poetry today...
...decision was announced this afternoon to members of the Transgender Task Force (TTF)——a group of students, staff, faculty, and alumni who has advocated for the inclusion of gender identity since 1997——in a meeting with Robert W. Iuliano ’83, University vice president and general counsel...
...email from former Courier editor and former Crimson president Robert E. Smith ’62, FM has learned that the former staff decided on Monday, April 3, to start a campaign to ensure that Auburn University Montgomery and other libraries have a complete set of the 175 issues of The Southern Courier. Their new website, www.southerncourier.org, was still under construction at press time...
...this carnage, and Robert Smith and company are in love? Alas, this impetuous insensitivity still runs rampant on American airwaves. Don’t even get me started on T.G.I. Friday?...