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National Lampoon’s The Hours. It’s about troubled author Virginia Woolf and her efforts to get into the nuttiest fraternity on campus...
Today, Virginia Woolf...
...home in Boston. From 1955 until 1982 when his position was cut, Sinnott looked over movies, music, plays and strippers to decide if they should be "banned in Boston." He kept the Jackson Five from performing and forced Edward Albee to remove lines from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at a local theater...
...Hollywood to blend fashion and statement. Academy President Frank Pierson expressed the hope: "Let's have peace soon, and let us live without war." These Americans were joined by Spain's Almod?var, who pleaded for peace and "international legality," and by Kidman, the Australian who played English novelist Virginia Woolf in "The Hours": she proclaimed the crucial place of art in times of war. Chip by chip, nationality by nationality, you could hear the showbiz contingent of the Coalition of the Willing cracking asunder. I applaud the eloquence, poignance and sheer brass of these statements, especially since I agree with...
...draft to engage a university more directly with the problems of war; it takes the audacity to make bigger claims about the purpose of a liberal arts education. As we read British war poetry to learn about life in World War I trenches, or the novels of Virginia Woolf to speak blithely about the sense of disconnect and restlessness of the era that preceded World War II, in fifty years, what will this generation of war poems and how they were read tell us about...