Word: tonis
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...Still, she didn’t come out of creative writing courses empty-handed. She received a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia and eventually ended up at Princeton, where she is an associate professor of creative writing on a small faculty that includes Joyce Carol Oates and Toni Morrison.Hellman, who is taking her fourth creative writing course this semester, has been hoping to write a creative thesis for years. She just submitted her proposal for a series of nonfiction pieces that include tales of kidney stones and parental reconciliation.Hellman first decided that she wanted to write a creative thesis...
...runway shows.Feb. 3, 12:15 p.m.Until now, we haven’t witnessed the “Zoolander”-esque ridiculousness that defines a stereotypical fashion show. Where is the Mugatu-styled hair? The “Derelicte” high fashion concepts? The brainwashed assassination attempts? Toni Maticevski’s over-the-top line answers our prayers.Upon entering the tent, also known as “The Showroom,” we encounter our first taste of zany fashion absurdity—what everyone imagines couture shows to be like. It’s not Mugatu...
...Clinton question, of course, looms large. Even during Clinton's impeachment trial, African-Americans, both in Congress and in the general public, never wavered from their strong backing of the man whom author Toni Morrison dubbed the country's "first black President." And it's not just that Bill Clinton would be campaigning for his wife. Two years ago, Democratic pollster Mark Mellman found in a focus group of 10 black women that eight named Hillary Clinton as their political hero. "I've got the biggest picture of one person in my office, a picture of myself and Hillary Clinton...
Some of the posters are reminders of the august figures that the Institute has hosted. Particularly memorable are Nigerian Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka’s many lectures at Harvard (including a series with fellow Nobel laureate Toni Morrison) and a discussion on jazz and American culture featuring documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Institute Director and Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates...
...interest to psychologists, who wonder how the swelling ranks of children growing up without brothers and sisters will develop. Decades of expert advice cast these singletons as problem citizens - solipsists with difficulty forming relationships. Now the balance of scientific opinion is swinging away from that idea. Professor Toni Falbo of the University of Texas has researched the subject for 30 years and, she says, found no disadvantages to children without siblings. That's because what counts is not a traditional family structure but the opportunity to form relationships with adults and contemporaries. "Parent and peer contact can compensate...