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...rendezvous with Death/At some disputed barricade" and ends, "And I to my pledged word am true./I shall not fail that rendezvous." Seeger's poem inspired Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous line "This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny" and was later adopted by President John F. Kennedy when insisting that the U.S. would soon put a man on the moon...
...American way of death, which historically has shuttled between the extremes of denial and desire, seems to be tending toward desire these days. The instantaneous monuments that are tossed together with flowers, stuffed animals and personal messages, such as those that followed the deaths of Princess Diana and John F. Kennedy Jr. and the TWA Flight 800 disaster, suggest that the country is ready, even eager, to connect with ideas of death and the past, no matter how superficial that connection may sometimes be. Victims of gang wars, drive-by shootings and drug deaths are instantly memorialized with murals...
Over the past decade, Newton has worked with one famous director after another: Bertolucci, Ivory, Neil Jordan (Interview with the Vampire) and Jonathan Demme (Beloved). Her co-stars have ranged from Nolte in Jefferson ("F______ funny. What a toilet mouth," she says, again citing a quality she obviously admires in her leading men) to the late rapper Tupac Shakur in Gridlock'd ("I was rude to him. 'What's that tattoo?' I'd ask. We had a flirty-rude relationship...
...little bit older and I realized she was the crazy one." After the release of his 1999 debut, The Slim Shady LP, Eminem's mother filed a defamation suit against him, claiming he portrayed her as a deadbeat. On the new album, Eminem addresses the suit: "My f______ bitch mom's suing for $10 million." Lawyers, start your engines...
...contrast, 59 percent of seniors have already donated to the senior gift, according to Harvard College Fund Associate Director Dana F. Picardi...