Word: artes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would like to think that art is not gender specific. Women should be able to appreciate a testosterone-drenched Tarantino film, just as guys ought to feel O.K. sneaking a few tears at the latest Susan Sarandon sudser. But any man who braves the theater for a performance of The Vagina Monologues had better be prepared. Eve Ensler's play is a series of monologues based on interviews with real women on the subject of their most intimate body part. There are lists of answers to "empowering" questions ("If your vagina could talk, what would it say?") and harrowing first...
...found that people were willing to wait," Henschke says, in order to avoid potential complications from unnecessary surgery. The still experimental scan costs $300 and is so far available only in New York City, Rochester, Minn., and Tampa, Fla. But if it becomes the next state-of-the-art weapon in the battle against lung cancer, the medical community needs to make sure its benefits are not limited to one group of people...
Hooray for New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani for denouncing the dung-covered Madonna collage being exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and for attempting to cut off public funding for the museum [NATION, Oct. 4]. Our society needs more courageous, moral people like Mayor Giuliani to stand up against the filth that is constantly being thrust upon us by left-wing liberals in the arts and entertainment. AUGUSTUS S. HUSSELTON Harrisburg...
...leave with a sense of having seen art as it is supposed to be--enriching, fulfilling, with a glimpse into another world...
...They're not the only ones. Besides trying to block both the Nation of Islam-sponsored Million Youth March and the Klan rally, Giuliani has drawn fire for his recent attempt to remove city funding from the Brooklyn Museum over an art exhibit. Although the moves seem to be designed to position him at the moderate center, Giuliani hasn't been able to make the transition completely: He plans to appeal the court's ruling, which he sharply criticized as "another example of the '60s ideology." Note to Hillary: There's still plenty of room in the middle...