Word: backgrounds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Raccoon with Wrecked Car," the human and the natural virtually collide. A raccoon peers through the shattered remains of a car window, against a night-time forested background. The raccoon looms large and we look at its startled expression from the inside of the car (the human domain), littered with remnants of its absent owners. The natural world of the raccoon and the forest are framed twice over by the red metallic frames of the car windows...
...photographs deal with the human political sphere. "Color Bar" broaches the issue of race, as group of black beetles and a group of green beetle face off atop a pile of old bones. Although technical dead, each group seems alive in its moment of confrontation. The sky in the background is dark and menacing. As in Norfleet's other work, the contrasts run deep, as anthropology is simultaneously charted and created...
...continually and freely uses terms like "opportunity," "rich" and "poor" in describing races, arguing that "whites and Asians have more opportunities." Lin is blind to the simple fact that it is rich whites and Asians who have more opportunities, not whites and Asians regardless of socio-economic background. Rich blacks and Hispanics can take Kaplan courses. Poor whites and Asians cannot...
...want to learn as much as I can about Parisian society," he says. "Maybe I'll find some restaurant, maybe butcher shops, or vegetable sellers, or, my favorite, pastry chefs. I'll want to know how they become pastry chefs, what they have to learn, what kind of background they have, if they marry within the category of pastry makers... and I'll start by asking them how to make pastry...
Listening to live jazz music in the background, sipping from filled glasses of brandy and wine and smoking fine cigars, an estimated 240 members of the University will attend the first meeting of the new Harvard Cigar Club...