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And then came 1968 -- annus mirabilis for the world and for Joseph Ratzinger. "Something happened," says Kung. "He was deeply shocked by the student revolts." At the time, Ratzinger was theology dean of the University of Tubingen, where Kung was a professor. "He had big clashes with his most intimate...
The new record, or records (if you want the two singles), keeps the layers and layers of superb, crisp hooks while ditching the Lewis Carroll ideology: perhaps in reaction to the Riot Grrrl thing, Heavenly has written songs about female self-reliance, gender-based intimidation and, yes, date rape. "P.U.N.K...
Instead, the novel's bad "guy"--and perhaps the characters' liberator--is a wonderfully sinister, manipulative creature named Zenia. Zenia, however, resists sexist categorizations in her own way: while seemingly a femme fatal, she cannot be simply, reductively seductive. Instead she remains the evil enigma. Nor is she ultimately fatal...
Rollins' tale gained credibility from two facts: Whitman squeaked by with a margin of about 30,000 votes out of 2.4 million ballots, and turnout in black areas where Florio had overwhelming support fell off sharply. Though Florio garnered about 80% of the Newark vote, for example, his total was...
All of us were aware of Kennedy's fascination with women, but when sex surfaced, it seemed more naughty than sinister. One holiday night in Palm Beach he put in a midnight call to a journalist, urged him to rush down to Worth Avenue the next day and do an...