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" All objects, all phases of culture are alive. They have voices. They speak of their history and interrelatedness. And they are all talking at once! "
Camille Paglia
History
Culture
Alive
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" A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s. "
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" Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art. "
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" Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. "
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" Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism. "
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" Madonna is her own Hollywood studio - a popelike mogul and divine superstar in one. She has a laserlike instinct for publicity, aided by her visual genius for still photography (which none of her legion of imitators has). Unfortunately, her public life has dissolved into a series of staged photo ops. "
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" It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. "
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Work
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" Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars. "
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Family
I Am
Strong
" When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times. "
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Boy
Me
Myself
" Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium. "
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Think
Well
Fan
" Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions? "
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Late
Like
Past
" It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design. "
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Never
Modern
Design
" High Romanticism shows you nature in all its harsh and lovely metamorphoses. Flood, fire and quake fling us back to the primal struggle for survival and reveal our gross dependency on mammoth, still mysterious forces. "
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You
Struggle
Nature
" I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years. "
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Years
Criticism
Film
" Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo. "
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Gate
Fear
Failure
" Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture. "
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Culture
Information
Training
" If Obama fails to win reelection, let the blame be first laid at the door of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who at a pivotal point threw gasoline on the flames by comparing angry American citizens to Nazis. "
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House
Angry
American
" Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends. "
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American
Family
Men
" Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much. "
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New
Clan
Behavior
" A woman simply is, but a man must become. "
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Man
Must
Simply
" The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them. "
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Enemies
Remembered
Dead
" I remember turning 'The Sopranos' on once and within two minutes nearly throwing a brick through the screen. "
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Brick
Within
Two
" Bravo's 'Real Housewives' series isn't just entertainment for devoted fans like me - it's an entire all-absorbing universe of pride and passion. "
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Pride
Real
Universe
" I'm a professor of media studies as well as humanities, and I'm an evangelist of popular culture, but when there's only media, then there's going to be a slow debasement of language, and that's what I think we're fighting. "
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Media
Think
Slow
" One of the main reasons I am so drawn to Hitchcock is that he planned his shots way in advance on story-boards, which he designed like classic paintings (he was an art connoisseur). It's why he found shooting on set boring - because he had already composed the film in his head. "
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Head
Art
" I guess I'm just a natural warrior. "
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Guess
Warrior
Just
" My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. "
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Book
History
" Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. "
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Balancing
Work
Women
" Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. "
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Know
" Heaven help the American-born boy with a talent for ballet. "
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" No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole. "
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