Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - Posts
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Hanna, I hadn't seen your insightful post about the welcome end of the expectations laid on the last generation of Kennedy women when I posted on how not being expected to be president was probably beneficial to Kennedy females. When I think of the Kennedy women who were able to escape the family pathology, I was looking at the current generation: Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Maria Shriver, Rory Kennedy, etc. This generation of Kennedy females has... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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The Last Days of Disco
is one of my favorite movies. It follows a group of recent college
grads awkwardly copulating in New York in the waning days of a Studio
54-ish club. Disco was out of print on DVD until the
Critereon re-released it this month. The Whit
Stillman-written-and-directed film was such a cult classic that when I
tried to buy it on Amazon a few years ago, the going rate for copies of
the film hovered around $100. Today on Slate, Troy Patterson points out Stillman's virtues as a social commentator and chronicler of "WASP decline." The reason I love Disco, though, is because it is the piece of film that best illustrates the deliciously awkward post-collegiate years. (Read more in DoubleX)
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While the papers are full of words like “dynasty” and “legacy,” Mary Jo Kopechne, according to Google Trends, is uppermost in our thoughts. (Read more in DoubleX)
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Last month, the International Olympic Committee announced that the 2012
London games would be the first to feature women’s boxing—and India is
gunning for the gold. Somini Sengupta reports in the Times today on how the boxing ring “represents a new kind of freedom” for Indian women ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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One thing we have lost with the passing of Edward Kennedy is a certain
generational model of the proper role for the family women in public
life—the mother, wife, mistress, and daughter. It’s not a model I will
miss ... (Read more in DoubleX.)