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...work of art by Vanessa Beecroft designed to humanize media images of female beauty and thus somehow invest women with power. The invitees gathered in the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan to view 15 bikini-clad models staring into space atop their high heels. But the glitziest affair in recent months was a reading of The Vagina Monologues, a performance piece about female private parts by Eve Ensler that attracted Uma Thurman, Winona Ryder and Calista Flockhart, among others. The actresses had come to raise money to fight domestic violence, but the cause seemed lost amid the event...
...date-rape awareness on college campuses was creating a culture of sexual fear and hysteria. She has gone on to write articles that excuse bad male behavior and tout her own desirability. In a piece that appeared in the January issue of Vogue, she told the story of an affair she had had with a teacher when she was 16. "In that first moment of thinking, maybe he likes me, there is a blossoming of feminine power," she wrote. "I remember first learning from my 36-year-old that I had the ability to attract a man." The implication...
...novelist takes full advantage of his professional prerogative: to grant complete freedom to the facts of his life. Don Rigoberto is an exuberant alteration of autobiography in which anything can happen. That includes a teenager's love affair with his stepmother and, perhaps even more socially unacceptable, book burning by a bibliophile. The Don, a Lima insurance executive by day and an aesthete at night, regularly incinerates his unwanted books and pictures to make room for new additions. Why not donate them to libraries and museums? His answer ("I realized it was stupid to inflict on other eyes a work...
...bone yesterday in the continued negotiations over her testimony: access to Lewinsky's bedside table -- or at least the list of books on it. According to reports, the ex-intern's attorneys are pressing for Starr to allow her to testify that she did indeed have a sexual affair with President Clinton. But no, she was not instructed to lie about it. Lewinsky's attorneys resolved a dispute between a Washington, D.C., bookstore and investigators by agreeing to release information on her purchases -- Starr's team supposedly wants those records to determine whether she purchased a copy of Nicholson Baker...
...used to be a nightmare [for Cuban performers]," says Juan de Marcos Gonzalez, a producer of Buena Vista Social Club. "But things are slowly getting better. America is interested in us again. It's in fashion to smoke a Havana, to visit the island, to have an affair with a Cuban woman." In recent months, celebrities such as Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Campbell and Alanis Morrisette have visited the island...