Tag: culture
member name: Cynthia C.
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August 18, 2006 06:55 PM EDT --
While the religious right eats away at the edges of American culture I had thought their influence on education, particularly science education, was confined, primarily to Kansas, where we get to watch . . .
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August 04, 2006 08:56 AM EDT --
Some people are clueless about how to close a deal.
Last week while I was teaching at the film and photography workshops in Rockport Maine I walked by a young photographer with some prints laid out on . . .
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August 14, 2006 07:37 PM EDT --
Pregnancy was a condition I tried to avoid but my body would thwart me. The only truly, 100% successful form of birth control that I had experience with was THE PILL. It protected me throughout my sexually . . .
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November 08, 2006 08:42 AM EST --
How do you resolve the fact that at least 60% of married woman confess to having had at least one affair (as reported in a recent study by gender studies professor Susan Shapiro Barash) and 90% of them . . .
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June 25, 2006 09:32 AM EDT --
There's a new biography out on Timothy Leary by Robert Greenfield. It's reviewed by Luc Sante on the cover of today's New York Times book section. There's a great image of a grinning Leary, . . .
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August 12, 2006 10:08 AM EDT --
At 14 Erika was a stunner. She was my daughter, and I didn't see it coming. I figured it out when we would walk down the street together and I saw guys swivel their heads so far around I thought they'd . . .
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August 24, 2006 07:27 PM EDT --
After 102 comments and still counting on my last post covering this topic, I could not believe my luck in today's NYTimes, yet more ammunition to indicate that our country is being dragged back to . . .
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August 20, 2006 10:55 AM EDT --
The Society of Visual Anthropology meets every year in the context of the American Anthropological Associations annual meeting. I'm a member of their board of directors. It's part of the requirements . . .
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July 06, 2006 08:39 AM EDT --
Richie Valens, The Chiffons, Lenny Welch, The Diamonds, Little Richard... this was the music that hit me between the ages of 12 and 14. When the hormones were ready to explode songs like "Come Go . . .
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August 27, 2006 02:01 PM EDT --
That the ideologues responsible for building the conservative philosophy upon which our current administration rests have spiralled downward into total delusional thinking came into sharp relief as I compared . . .
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September 28, 2006 07:54 AM EDT --
BG, my 20 something, lefty, vegan, environmentalist, office manager said she had no idea that American "terrorists" were blowing government buildings up in the 1970's. If any of you doubt . . .
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June 10, 2006 08:25 PM EDT --
Do you have a nail shop run by some Asian folks near you? In a three block stretch along Mass. Ave., near where I live in Cambridge, there are now three such nail "spas". There was one when we . . .
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June 27, 2006 07:27 AM EDT --
Grandma used to mutter about "niggers" under her breath, usually when she was doing dishes. She was getting pretty old by then but otherwise was still mentally and physically sound. It would . . .
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July 04, 2006 12:08 PM EDT --
After having seen Al Gore in person at SILVERDOCS in Silver Springs Maryland a few weeks ago I was primed to catch his documentary on global warming, AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH when it hit our local AMC Lowes . . .
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July 11, 2006 09:35 AM EDT --
Marching to the Boston Common in 1968-69 to demonstrate against the Vietnam War and for civil rights at home was the last time I was moved to the point of actually getting off my butt for my beliefs. (That . . .
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August 02, 2006 06:36 AM EDT --
Today my students will pull together the story telling skills they've practiced all week. The goal is to convince a panel of commissoning editors that their projects should be green-lighted for broadcast . . .
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August 05, 2006 08:32 AM EDT --
The Friday night wrap party ia always a jubilant, raucous event. The intense pressure and creative effort to produce original, well crafted work that will awe your peers cries out for release. It needs . . .
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September 30, 2006 01:48 PM EDT --
Yesterday was Brooke's last as a summer intern. She was one of those bright, attractive, energetic young women who have been drawn to our company over the years and dedicated enough to work for free. . . .
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October 25, 2006 09:45 AM EDT --
That's right, October 25th, Picasso was born on that day in 1881. I was also born on that day and have always felt a weird sense of pride that I shared that day with such a revered artist.
I . . .
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November 03, 2006 10:03 AM EST --
Since I know I'll get a lot of pot shots from my last post, I might as well hit the bible thumpers too and include them in on my themes today of disrespect and hypocrisy. Since these folks are by far . . .
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