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hink you have Madonna all figured out? Think again.
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hink you have Madonna all figured out? Think again.
During the Democratic and Republican national conventions, you most likely heard politicos and pundits discuss the party platforms. Allow me to answer some questions about what makes up the various party platforms.
This interview with Professor Michael Montague-Smith, former organic chemistry professor and associate director of undergraduate studies for the chemistry department, is the first in this volume's series of Oak Room Interviews. The series is designed to shed light on the personalities of noted campus figures in an informal setting. This interview was conducted by Martin Barna, editorial page editor of The Chronicle.
There are two types of concerts: the spectacle and the set list. Spectacle shows are full of razzle-dazzle and flash. A spectacle concert gets you to focus on just about everything but the music. For example, U2 put on one of the best spectacle shows ever with PopMart a few year ago. There are so many visual effects and spinning lemons at a U2 concert that you can sometimes forget Bono is playing guitar-which can be a good thing.
Deep within the confines of a secret underground lair, Gov. George W. Bush and Karl Rove, Bush's chief strategist, are hard at work.
For the last several years, Abercrombie & Fitch has tried to make life a little easier for preppy pretty boy-and-girl hopefuls by marketing rugged "lifestyle" clothing that's sure to turn heads. But if you think it's hard to pull off that sexy A&F look when you're strutting down the quad, you can only begin to imagine what it takes for Abercrombie to make you one of their own "brand representatives." Recess recently got our hands on a top-secret "look book" guide for A&F employees. Let's just say it takes more to get on with A&F than it does to be on a CBS series. With that thought in mind and manual in hand, Recess took a look at how the Survivor cast would stack up in Fitchland.
Thankfully, I was preoccupied the day apathy became chic.
Roland "Godzilla" Emmerich teamed up with Mel "Braveheart" Gibson to make The Patriot, a film of textbook heroes and villains that is best viewed with your brain off. When the bad guy, Colonel Tavington-sharply played by Jason Isaacs-appears, you instinctively boo. When Gibson steps on screen-with perfect 18th-century teeth-you cheer. Simple.
Humor is intended to make you laugh. Political humor is intended to make you laugh and think at the same time. We can forgive a pundit if on occasion he or she is able to deliver one without the other. However, a political humorist who provokes neither a chuckle nor a thought should leave us in anything but a forgiving mood. Thus, Michael Moore's a "Ficus for Congress" stunt will receive no pardon here.
Lately, when the University has announced an expansion into the city of Durham, it has related to the Health System.
Wow, last week opened a stunning chapter in the saga of campaign finance reform, didn't it? What happened is pretty amazing, but in case you missed it, have no fear, The Chronicle has it covered.
The pope recently issued an apology for errors throughout the course of history committed by the Catholic Church. His Holiness was no doubt influenced by George W. Bush's recent apology to Catholics for speaking at an avowed anti-Catholic university and not criticizing the school's bigotry. The Texas governor has promised to speak out against bigotry in the future-whenever the polls tell him it is the right thing to do. When John Paul II was asked why he was speaking out at this time, he reportedly declared: "I am a uniter, not a divider."
Few people would argue that this has not been an interesting primary season. George W. Bush has slipped on the banana peel of his own incompetence many times, and we still have seven months until the general election. So far, John McCain has ruined more than one man's campaign-his own, Bush's and Bill Bradley's. (Remember Bill Bradley?) This race is so exciting that even Al Gore is awake.
Most literary critics regard William Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus as his worst play. It is a violent work with horrifying acts of brutality including rape, cannibalism and dismemberment. The theme is revenge and the revenge is a bloody mess. First-time director Julie Taymor seems to be exacting a cruel revenge on what otherwise could be an amazing film.
Most conservatives express support for a strict constructionist interpretation of the Constitution. That is, they feel that judges should be constrained by the original intent of the framers in their interpretation of the Constitution; judges should not "make law," but simply render judgments based on a narrow reading of the document. Conservatives contend that "activist" (also known as liberal) judges are too eager to bend the Constitution to suit their own ideological bias, and as a consequence dangerously enhance the breadth and scope of the Constitution.
The United Auto Workers union added a relatively minor provision to its latest contract that could have a significant impact on politics. The 400,000-member organization-which has most of its membership concentrated in Michigan, Missouri and Ohio-successfully negotiated for Election Day to be a new vacation day for all union employees.
Boys Don't Cry, directed and written by first-time filmmaker Kimberly Peirce, is the true story of Teena Brandon, a teenager who has a sexual identity crisis. Brandon (Hilary Swank) elects to chop her hair short, tape down her breasts, stuff her shorts and perfect her walk in order to look like a boy.
Surprising nobody, the Catholic League, an organization devoted to protesting anything anti-Catholic, has chosen to rain fire and brimstone on the movie Dogma...
Michael Mann's The Insider is about a decision by CBS not to run a segment on 60 Minutes.
Let me be the first-and probably only-film critic to bestow an honor on the new Meryl Streep movie, Music of the Heart. It wins, hands down, the award for "sappiest music-related drama," snatching the prize away from the four-year defending champion, Mr. Holland's Opus.