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...COLOR YELLOW: BEAUFORD DELANEY. The 20th-century African-American expatriate artist Beauford Delaney is probably the least known or understood talent among the Abstract Expressionists. Pigeon-holed as a “Negro artist” by early critics, Delaney nonetheless lived a life of love and art. This retrospective of his work, from the portraits and cityscapes done in New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1940s to the abstract work that followed his 1953 move to Paris, demonstrate his wide vocabulary of topics and emotional colors. Through May 4. Hours...
Estrada also declined to be drawn into abstract discussions about his judicial philosophy. Not every good lawyer or judge has a “judicial philosophy,” nor should they be required to have one. This is professors’ stuff, and forcing practical men and women to spout pretentious platitudes on these subjects serves no useful purpose. As has been shown time and again, answers to such questions are not even good predictors of actual judicial performance. Certainly subjecting Estrada to such a sophomoric inquisition is not necessary to assure the Senate of Estrada?...
...separate groups, the students mimicked a leader representing an abstract entity, like “Mr. Yes” and “Mr. No,” or “father” and “daughter.” The group leaders were asked to release their unconscious feelings with improvised gestures, while the other students imitated their movements. Each actor’s emotions were magnified and reinforced by their mirror images, and their individual identities became part of a larger emotional entity...
Dalton is an adherent of Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought which holds that the law is not based on abstract notions of justice, but rather upholds contemporary social and economic conditions...
...Never a day went by that penises were not discussed.” Other common topics included virginity, substance-abuse and pre-marital sex. Evens explains, “Bodies are constantly a concern in writing. I am interested in questions of identity incorporated with something not so abstract...