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...terms of mainstream student values then, Wellesley today is every bit as much Mona Lisa Smile-puritan as it is secular, Sapphic fantasyland. And there are, of course, numerous students that fall between these two spheres...

Author: By Stephen C. Bartenstein | Title: Wellesley Exposed | 3/18/2007 | See Source »

...features polarize listeners into fright (skinny white boys) or adoration (latter day feminists). Those sallow eyes, sultry voice and writhing midriff in 1996’s “Criminal” video won me; while I had only a prepubescent understanding of the subject, it began a pseudo-sapphic affair with self-loathing women...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music: Fiona Apple | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

...major studios. Penelope Spheeris, 40, has two grungy, turbulent melodramas in release this month, Hollywood Vice Squad and The Boys Next Door. At the other end of the fringe, Donna Deitch, 40, won the Jury Prize at this year's U.S. Film Festival with Desert Hearts, a tale of Sapphic love in Reno that plays like The Women hyped on estrogen. The festival's Grand Prize went to Joyce Chopra's Smooth Talk, which opened in New York City recently to critical raves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Calling Their Own Shots | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...liners for far too long. The song isn’t about a damn thing! But it does feature some hilariously awful boasts (even the biggest fans of the D-R-E have got to admit that the track’s unprintable analogy comparing his flow to a Sapphic sex act is shamefully ridiculous) so it’s worth a once-over. And the chorus is catchy in a nostalgic, “hey, remember how great synth-based gangsta rap was?” sort of way. Remember how scared your parents were of you getting shot...

Author: By Abe J. Reisman and Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Tonight We're Gonna Party Like It's 1995 | 4/22/2005 | See Source »

...smorgasbord of singers—Kroks and Dins, Pitches and the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Company—headed to Bermuda over the break, where festivities included flip cup, sunbathing, and really, really obnoxious singing. Less predictably, we hear some sapphic shenanigans broke out among the apparently amorous Pitches—whom, we should note, were the only ladies on the trip. Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink?...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Michael M. Grynbaum, Evan R. Johnson, and Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Gadfly: The Week in Buzz | 4/7/2005 | See Source »

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