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Walk through the Harvard University Press Shop and you'll see a rape victim. Maybe. You'll have to search hard; look at the author photo on a copy of Catherine A. MacKinnon's Only Words, an anti-pornography text which argues that in the case of sex acts, "To say it is to do it and to do it is to say it," In other words, looking at pictures and reading about violent sex acts are tantamount to actually committing the crime of rape. And MacKinnon now believes she has been raped...
...nice woman who is also interviewing, and take her out for a Valentine's Day dinner (stranger things have happened), I'll probably spend my relaxing time in Connecticut working on my thesis. As a matter of fact, I'm currently trying to find a place in the text, as are my roommates in their theses, in which to insert the phrase "Love means never having to say you're sorry." While many apply this saying to their significant others, my roommates and I have pledged to include these words as a testament of our friendship...
...answer to that question speaks to the thinly veiled sub-text of Cucci's column, which is a simple reinforcement of societal standards of physical appearance. Cucci is not addressing himself to the gravely obese, whose weight poses health problems, but, as he makes clear, to those who could simply use some toning. (Although towards the end of the piece he issues the unsupported and out-of-left-field observation that "Too many people in the Harvard community are eating themselves into the grave...
...easy one to view; it might alienate some spectators at the beginning. However, it quickly and forcefully draws its audience in. After their eyes adjust to the blue, the viewers willingly surrender their feelings and rejoice at the crystalline brilliance of Jarman's words. Although the text--based on the director's journal--is the most apparent component of the film, "Blue" is more than words and music: the unchanging blue screen is fundamental to the strange and powerful impact of the piece...
...following is the text of a press release issued yesterday by state Department of Mental Retardation Commissioner Philip Campbell above the Wretham State School radiation study...