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Vanserg is in Siberia. The Quad is the Gulag. You can’t ascend William James without a Sherpa. Our dinnertime conversation bears a passing resemblance to that of late-Victorian British adventurers as it degenerates into how-far-afield-have-you-gone games of one-upmanship: You had section in the Science Center? Well, I just got back from the Center for European Studies. You’ve got class in Lowell Lecture Hall? I don’t want to hear about it; I had to go to office hours in Hilles. Granted, late-Victorian British adventurers...

Author: By Phoebe Kosman, | Title: Taking to The Street | 3/22/2004 | See Source »

...conceit involves a successful early ’80s businesswoman who invites a number of literary and historical figures to dinner to celebrate a recent promotion. The ensemble includes a Japanese courtesan, a character from Canterbury Tales, a female pope, a woman from a Bruegel painting and a Victorian world traveler. Largely set around a single dining table, the six women discuss their past exploits, often finding themselves faced with the problem of defining their “womanhood” independent of its conflicts with “manhood...

Author: By Michelle Chun and Ben B. Chung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Spring Season at the Loeb | 3/19/2004 | See Source »

...inform each other," says Dana Foley, a former playwright who designs the Foley line for Foley & Corinna, while her partner, Anna Corinna, scours the globe for vintage pieces. "Seeing girls pick out vintage, you get a feel for the trends," Foley observes. "Two years ago, girls were buying ripped Victorian lace, and the next season you were seeing it on the runway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Something Old, Something New | 3/1/2004 | See Source »

...Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe and The Washington Times all devoted editorial space to discussing the issue. The Economist was inspired enough to write an article arguing that the destruction of the sculpture was compelling evidence of American prudishness. “What is political correctness but Victorian prudery in modern dress?” asked the article’s author. The infamous snow phallus picture on TheCrimson.com had over 100,000 hits—the most in the website’s history—and even Playboy requested the photo for its magazine...

Author: By Lia C. Larson, | Title: Obscene Obsession | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

...struggled with the meaning of life over the years," admits Elliot, who dropped out of graphic-design school to sell T shirts for five years at the St. Kilda markets. Then, like Harvie, he had a carpe diem call - and seized the day by enrolling in film at the Victorian College of the Arts in 1996. (Elliott's friend and former classmate Glendyn Ivin took out the Palme d'Or for short film at Cannes last year with another deadpan tale about a suburban misfit, Cracker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pathos in Plasticine | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

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