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I spent a while looking at these this morning.

For some reason, I felt a whole series of reactions. Mostly emotional. It is worth taking the time to look.

The older I get the more I realize that "looking" is most of life.

Forty Portraits in Forty Years

Labels: life, photography, women

BARKIN AND A LITTLE BITE

I have been smitten with Ellen Barkin since I first saw her.

Which would be diner. The Tender Mercies. I missed a few, I think, and then remember Big Easy. Dennis Quaid again. Her crush in the diner film.

And so on and on.

She is mature now. And still working. A Broadway debut in The Normal Heart.

I would give a lot to see that.

She is a trouper.

Ellen Barkin is No Uptown Girl.

Nice to know she is alive and still kicking after her run in with that awful cosmetics baron. A shit by all acounts. But she is back and doing fine, thank you.

Labels: films, women

SECOND

It would be neglectful of a long standing rivalry not to mention that MIT has had a woman, Susan Hockfield, as President for several years.

What is more, she was not appointed in reaction to a political / cultural scandal within the august bodies of its faculty.

She got the job because she was good and it was time.

Harvard has always been the second class university in Cambridge, MA.

Too little too late.

Drew Gilpin Faust: Coming of Age in a Changed World.

Congratulations and best wishes to the new comer.

Labels: MIT, women