What has occurred to me is how surprisingly easy one can stay in the same building for a day, without feeling the need to leave. Perhaps that’s the shelter-in-place training materializing, but perhaps it also speaks to the sub-worlds that exist within Tjaden.
2020
‘Borat’ is Realer Than Reality
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‘Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan’ is its own kind of horror movie.
Arts & Entertainment
A Face-to-Face With Student Author of ‘My Tech-Wise Life’
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It’s not every day that you get to sit down with a Cornell student who has just written a generation-defying piece of work.
Arts & Entertainment
Truth Hurts: Lizzo on Body Positivity
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Lizzo is in the limelight — including a recent Vogue cover — precisely for celebrating her body in all of its complexities.
Arts & Entertainment
YANG | How to Counter-Culture in the Age of Surveillance?
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The imaginaries of surveillance have entered our popular culture in pervasive ways.
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YANDAVA | Frock Consciousness
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Woolf knew that it was not we who wear the clothes, but the clothes that wear us. This is doubly true in the case of great clothes. When I read one of her novels, it is like putting on some fantastic new garment. I feel the fluidity and lightness of the words flow over me like silk, their rich histories and sound-associations weaving in and out of one another, embroidering and patterning the whole.
Arts & Entertainment
Festival 24: Virtual Theater in Twenty-Four Hours
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Festival 24’s fourth Zoom performance during the pandemic looked a bit different, but it was no less entertaining. Festival 24 is part of the Performing and Media Arts Department’s semester tradition, written, directed and performed virtually this semester and last. Students have just 24 hours to write and produce a play.
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The Defiant Joy of ‘The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue’
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If you are looking for something to give you back some hope and remind you to find your own sense of a “defiant kind of joy,” The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is the perfect book to settle in with. Hers is a story you will certainly not forget.
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‘On Valentine’s Day’
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I regarded, piqued yet leery,
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Deconstructing the Wild West
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The fact that Westerns allow us to elude our own realities is at the heart of the genre’s remarkable longevity. While the specific factors from which we are looking to escape have evolved drastically from the 1950s to present day, the desire stands unwavering.
A Sky Beyond the Storm
‘A Sky Beyond the Storm’ Is the Perfect Conclusion to a Riveting Series
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A Sky Beyond the Storm is the perfect conclusion to this series, finishing the characters’ arc in a satisfying, though not always happy, manner.