Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What irks Paglia so much, she said, is not so much a lack of credible scholarship, but the rejection of nature, beauty and objective truth by post-modernists and post-structuralists...
...truth is stranger than fiction, it is, in this instance, also harsher. Mary, 37, is pregnant again, and her and Vili's second child, when it is born, will be Exhibit A in the likely case that the local prosecutor will bring fresh charges of rape against her. Though she has persuaded her prison keepers that she is ill enough to stay in the infirmary--which is equipped with a phone that she uses constantly--prison is still a terrible place to be pregnant. The appeal of her original case will take weeks just to plan, weeks more...
...Letourneaus were in hell. Steve wasn't sure what to do. Take his children from their mother? In the end, a relative of his called Mary's school district anonymously. School officials immediately phoned the cops, who questioned Vili the next morning. He told the truth, and later that day, in February 1997, the school principal called Mary out of a faculty meeting. A detective was waiting to arrest...
...some that Mary disputes. In his forthcoming piece in Mirabella, Jim Fielder includes an account by a court-appointed counselor of an incestuous relationship involving Mary and one of her three brothers. Mary has told friends that the counselor who wrote this evaluation wildly exaggerated the truth, which was that in an innocent childhood exploration, she had once touched a brother's penis. She has told friends she hopes to sue the counselor. Friends say Letourneau is also angry with Fielder, claiming he not only interviewed her under false pretenses (she believed he was writing a screenplay) but also took...
...Philadelphia-born Calder was a fluent and effusively industrious artist who made thousands of works, and Prather has done a fine job of winnowing the wheat from the chaff, of which, truth to tell, there is a great deal. Calder never seems to have had the smallest inhibition about his chosen career. Both his parents were artists, and he made his own toys, "always a junkman of bits of wire and all the prettiest stuff in the garbage can." Growing up, he studied mechanical engineering, took painting classes at the Art Students League in New York City...