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The bling queen
When Tess sets up her own business as the accessorizing stylist of her middle school, her valuable locket goes missing during one of her consultations, and every one of her clients is a suspect.
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A Portrait of the Writer as Artist
Writers often use other arts such as painting, sculpting or music as metaphors for their own creative task. Silvina Ocampo, herself an artist as well as a short story writer, follows this tradition by making frequent reference in her stories to various types of artistic endeavors. An examination of art and of artists which appear as characters in Ocampo’s fiction may shed light on the aesthetics which govern her written work; it may also provide clues to the issues of gender in Ocampo’s writing, “ese no sé qué femenino” mentioned by Eduardo González Lanuza in 1949.
To do this, however,
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No more bows
When Milly puts a bow on her dog Hugo he feels embarrassed walking by the other neighborhood dogs until he finds out how much fun it can be.
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The Rise and Fall of the Striptease Intellectual
An emblematic attempt to decrown the Queen of Striptease—to strip striptease of its elegant pose—occurred in the spring of 1940, when H. L. Mencken dragged Gypsy into a linguistic quarrel about her profession. This was classic Mencken: by calling attention to Gypsy’s role in domesticating striptease, he would expose her and the “Booboisie”—his word for the aspirational middle class that had created her—as hypocrites. The spat began playfully enough when Gypsy’s friend, the stripper Georgia Sothern, known for taking it off to the song “Hold That Tiger,” set out to find a synonym for “striptease,” as
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