Word: subjection
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...album. "Jackie's Strength" carries a genuinely moving note of admiration to the late Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis. Although the song may border on sappiness, Amos' poignant passion streams through the delicate piano music to create a sincere cry against the double-standards women must face--always a favorite song subject of hers. "If you love enough, you'll lie a lot," she powerfully sings, her voice standing strong enough to support the weaker lyrics...
...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's giddy theatrics. Featured were Marisa Tomei on the subject of pubic hair (sample line: "You cannot love a vagina unless you love hair"); Glenn Close offering an homage to an obscene word for female genitalia; and, finally, the playwright delivering three solid minutes of orgasmic moaning. The Village Voice called it "the most important and outrageous feminist event...
...that sexual self-revelation is groundbreaking in itself. But of course it isn't. It's at least as old as the '70s. That decade gave us, among other things, the erotic art of feminist group-sex advocate Betty Dodson and a NOW-sponsored sexuality conference that covered the subject of sadomasochism. And it gave us Erica Jong's titillating Fear of Flying, as well as Nancy Friday's 1973 best seller, My Secret Garden, which celebrated female sexual fantasies...
...long road from that disillusion, and near the rock bottom that alcoholics talk of having to hit, Lorian was up in Michigan on the Big Two-Hearted River, the subject of a photo shoot. Never mind that Ernest had actually fished the nearby Fox River, which had more trout, and merely used the Big Two-Hearted name because he liked it. Her difficulty was that she was drinking 32 cans of beer a day. An old, reformed alcoholic camped nearby told her she needed help, and that the truth hurts...
Andrew K. Mandel '00 is in Japan this summer, spreading the joys of subject-verb agreement and requesting "Opposites Attract" from the English-speaking radio station just...