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Other genres--mystery, thriller, horror, sci-fi--attract no cultural stigma, but those categories also appeal heavily to male readers. Romances do not, and therein, some of the genre's champions argue, lies the problem. "I cannot help but suspect," writes romance author Penelope Williamson, "that romance is so often ridiculed and denigrated because it is a literature written almost exclusively by women for women...
...life isn't always so sugary sweet. HUPD spends much of its time dealing with Harvard scum. Every horror stories ends on the HUPD doorstep: someone's bike ripped off from a rack outside of the Science Center or a laptop mysteriously disappearing from Lamont during reading period. "Talking to people who have grown up around [the Cambridge and Somerville area], I've found that many of them say it's just a well known fact that Harvard students are careless with their possessions. They just aren't aware," says DiVirgilio...
Head to the Internet's outer fringes, and the alarm bells start sounding. This (with the exception of that genuinely scary "60 Minutes" report) is where most of the aforementioned horror stories are. Some afflicted Gulf War veterans blame The Shot for their woes, although when you hear how many government pills soldiers popped over there to protect them from Saddam it's hard to figure what might have been responsible for whatever they might have come down with...
...read with horror and disgust your article about "Dumpster babies" and the new programs that offer a place where a mother can leave a baby and walk away [LAW, Feb. 21]. My rage is directed not at the mothers but at our puritanical, judgmental, self-serving society. This tragic phenomenon is the harvest of the views sown by the pro-lifers, who irresponsibly insist that a pregnancy must result in birth. I challenge pro-lifers to spend a week in an urban slum visiting homeless and unwanted children and seeing the quality of their lives. Perhaps the pro-lifers might...
Trying to manufacture camp on purpose is as fruitless as trying to make primitive art in a factory. But that's the blatant aim of this remake of a 1973 occult cult classic--hence the over-the-top visual effects, the showy lesbian overtones and the general '70s-horror vibe. Casting Kate Jackson, from the original Satan, shows how desperately this 6-6-sex flick wants cult cred. And casting Shannen Doherty of Charmed reminds us that there's cooler supernatural programming on several nights a week...