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...thesaurus that offers only a few synonyms for woman, including "female partner in marriage, wife, lady and Mrs." But when it comes to the entry for man, the list runs on and on: "member of the human race, human being, body, creature, individual, life, mortal, party, person, soul, mankind, flesh, humanity, humankind . . ." What? No "higher animal...
...pained dignity gave the lie to cliche. This Garbo lived by a standard too high for men to reach, so they grabbed what they could touch -- her body. "How little you know of love," she sighs in A Woman of Affairs, "my kind of love." Her films, from Flesh and the Devil to The Mysterious Lady, from Anna Christie to Anna Karenina, were a master course in the varieties of that kind of love: desperate, consuming, exalted. They were also lessons in her kind of star acting. Cinema would never again see its like...
Recently the most visible of the minority magazines has been the just-released Diaspora. Heralding itself as "the journal of Black thought and culture," the magazine, as outlined by editor Kevin L. Young, '92, attempts "to flesh out the artistic and cultural side" of Black society...
...fact, Steiner didn't even manage to outrank the members of the Harvard band. He sat directly behind them in the corner of the Garden. And although he couldn't hear the sound of flesh and blood crashing against the Garden's plexi-glass barriers, the band's rendition of "10,000 Men of Harvard" must have been loud and clear. And given the final score--8-2, Boston University over Harvard--it was probably better that...
Problems like these, admits the White House, may take years to solve. Later this month when he meets with Governors to flesh out the goals, Bush could speed the process by more forcefully endorsing strategies such as simplifying teacher certification and lengthening the school year. "The goals won't be hard to set," says Lamar Alexander, the former Republican Governor who is now president of the University of Tennessee. "But we'll have to see if everyone is bold enough to make the quantum leaps we need." Without a firmer push from Washington, states and districts may never measure...