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Monday, Jul 29, 2002

newport news

"Next Saturday, Dylan, now 61, will return to the Newport Folk Festival for the first time since that evening. It would be easy to read too much into the occasion. If there is a general remark that might be true about a figure like Dylan, it is that general remarks are almost always distortions. The opposites contained in any real artist prepare an ambush for generalizations."

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chimichanga

"At approximately 2 a.m., Rosenblatt was finishing a particularly difficult course-pack reading on the impact of feminism, post-feminism, and current 'queer' theory on received notions of gender and sexual preference/identity. Realizing he hadn't eaten since lunch, the Ph.D candidate picked up the Burrito Bandito menu. Before he could decide on an order, he instinctively reduced the flyer to a set of shifting, mutable interpretations informed by the set of ideological biases—cultural, racial, economic, and political—that infect all ethnographic and commercial "histories.""

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