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...that artists choose to represent cultures. She says of recipes, “They are a cultural memory, a piece of text, art, that moves and evolves from one place to another.” But anyone who thinks of Sen as playing into feminine Indian stereotypes should be wary??her focus on such texts as recipes serves not to probe the mundane; rather, this kind of inquiry into the experience of individuals (a person, a text) is rich and informative in a way that certain traditional research lacks. She also brings a vital realism to her scholarship...

Author: By Zoe M. Savitsky, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Portrait: Sharmila Sen | 4/12/2006 | See Source »

...Kumin and Sexton first met in 1957, when the two women—both of whom were housewives in the same suburb, Newton—enrolled in a poetry writing workshop at the Boston Center for Adult Education. Kumin says that she was initially “a little wary?? of Sexton, who came to the workshop in high heels, with pancake makeup on her face and flowers in her hair. And according to Kumin, the wariness was mutual: “She [Sexton] said ‘Maxine Kumin was the frump of frumps...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Say It in Flowers | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...figure out who he was. The droves of acolytes grew as summer turned to fall, drawn by the image of Dean as a maverick. Though O’Mary would never be a “Deaniac”—years behind the scenes had made him wary??maybe he’d had enough of spin...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Guy Behind the Guy | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

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