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...into the wrong hands. Yet this is a fear for any federal department. There’s a risk that even the Department of the Interior can fall prey to private contractors and a particular political ideology. Perhaps a more important question: Why should anyone have the authority to say what American culture is? There’s a fear that the Department of Culture could become an ethnocentric, gender- or class-biased agency. But the department need not take this route and could legitimately maintain a position of unity through diversity—just as the Smithsonian...
...using the phrase “totes” as a form of assent. Now I hurl “totes” everywhere, even at people who ask me if I want whipped cream on my lattes. “I didn’t used to actually say ‘totes,’” I apologize, ruefully. The barista nods. “I didn’t used to call people Dudemeisters,” he admits...
...Readings based on analysis—a summary of the narrative thread or a pinpointing of the poem’s speaker, for instance—are as important as emotionally subjective reactions. Both are more difficult (the former to produce, the latter to explain) in contemporary poetry than, say, in a Shakespearean sonnet. This isn’t to say that Shakespeare isn’t complex, or less complex than contemporary lyric poems. It is that the difficulties of poetry have spread from the depth of the emotion expressed into the poem’s literal coherence...
...it’s geeky. I almost got beat up in high school because I was watching “Holy Grail,” and I just couldn’t help myself but say all the lines along with the movie...
...Andrew Gn, who are four of the biggest names in the industry. We always invite edgy, young designers. The other half of the show is composed of student designers. We invited 10 designers from Parsons and two RISD designers. We want the audience to look at the clothes and say, “Wow I never knew you could do that with clothes.” There are some really wild things. The bigger names are less avant-garde in their designs, so it’s nice to have the students who can take risks in their designs...