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...decade or so as readers? liaison. She cued the notion of the Playmate as hometown houri: not a showgirl or call girl but the girl next door (or next-office), the succulent embodiment of ordinary Americana. The job of posing for a girlie magazine was now not a shame for a young woman but a kind of honor, like being chosen Homecoming Queen. What John Skow wrote of the Playboy Club Bunny - that she was ?half geisha and half double-malted? - applied even more to the Playmate gestalt. Brilliantly, and bit by bit, Hefner had domesticated the nude...
...literary career, Nasrin has been as prolific as she has been controversial. Nasrin began as a poet, but first attracted serious negative attention with the publication of Lajja (Shame), a book she says is about “the Hindu persecution in Bangladesh by the Muslim fundamentalists...
Writing a column about how crazy Michael Jackson is would be about as gratuitous as claiming that Matt LeBlanc’s Friends spin-off, Joey, isn’t destined for Frasier-hood. Besides, a recent photo of his face would shame any written argument I might make. But the leap from Off the Wall to child molestation, with which he was recently charged for the second time in a decade, requires no minimal amount of justification. Thus far, we have little more evidence than one child’s claim against Jackson—two, if we include...
...story concerning the final club is true, I think the Harvard community has a much larger problem on its hands. Why worry about the capture of a chicken that was going to be slaughtered anyway, when animal cruelty runs rampant all around us? All I can say is: For shame, Harvard University Dining Services. For shame! I hope this letter is printed in full, so that the eyes...
...shame that Maltzan’s earlier work is not included in “Lift,” as it would have provided valuable context for his work thus far. His art center projects in Los Angeles (one for the non-profit Inner-City Arts program and the other for the afflient Harvard-Westlake School) show Maltzan trying to find his own voice. Only in his early 40s, Maltzan is charting a career of Gehry-like proportions; it is hard to dismiss the suspicion that “Lift” is something of a resume-builder...