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Last Thursday, Latinas Unidas sponsored a round-table discussion, "The Virgin versus the Bombshell: Latinos, Latinas and Sex," at which students addressed many of these stereotypes, including the "virgin-bombshell dichotomy." Alatorre described the dichotomy as the general perception in "all levels of society" that Latina women are either "inexperienced or oversexed...
...beginning was Diana the Apparition: the late, lamented princess's face seen as a vision in a painting at St. James' Palace by grief-stricken vistors four days after her death. Then came Diana the Idol: Berlin's Free University held a series of seminars comparing her to the Virgin Mary. And now, Diana the Healer: Liz Tilberis, editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar, tells of how her ovarian cancer went into remission -- as a direct result of a chat with her friend Diana...
...silence before the singing of the salve, a traditional song offered at midnight every night to an imagen, a doll-like, elaborately dressed statue ensconced in glass on one side of the bar. With guitar and castanets, two men wailed the chant in praise of and prayer to the Virgin, their voices mixing in harmony and discord, an aching sound similar to flamenco song...
...Wednesday's episode of Politically Incorrect, Chumbawamba's Alice Nutter told fans to steal the group's hit album from Virgin Megastores. In retaliation, the chain removed the anarchic pop group's CD from their shelves, keeping it behind the counter. While other record stores have done the same to rap groups, this is a first for Virgin. Nutter thinks the company is overreacting. She told People that she's shoplifted many times before--the highlight of which was a very pretty dress. Still, she doesn't think this imbroglio is going to help get out the band's political...
Today it is Lotto's strangeness that enchants--or, more precisely, the way he assimilates strangeness into naturalism. The show includes what must surely be the most peculiar image of the Annunciation ever painted. We're looking into the Virgin's chamber. She is in the foreground, looking girlish and distraught, facing you and throwing up her hands as though she were appealing for help. And why not? The angel, bearing the news that God has just impregnated her (you can see God in the background, as invasive and patriarchal as could be), seems to have fairly burst into...