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...subversive instinct was evident from his bare feet upwards. McFerrin utilized his improvisational ability to twist classical music; Pachelbel’s “Canon” became a country and western hoe-down and received tumultuous audience response. He interjected his performances with parodied accents and hammy antics, demonstrating that pretension and talent need not be inextricably linked. While stage hands made one of many set changes, he, comically stern and stoic, played polytonal music to accompany, and pulled aside Jonathan Salz of the Sanders Theater production staff and staged an impromptu interview as he supervised the transition...
...with the almost evenly divided House up for grabs in November, the redistricting battle is getting even more bare-knuckled this time. Democrats have to switch only six seats to retake the House. So far, from the states that have completed the redistricting, there's been little net gain for either Republicans or Democrats. But some states have yet to settle on their lines and the political battles there are growing more intense...
...missed the flight. When he showed up the next day, his appearance--long-haired, disheveled, druggie--seemed almost calculated to draw attention. At the boarding gate, says Annie Joly, a Frenchwoman on the flight, "I was immediately struck by how bizarre he looked." After Reid's arrest, the bare bones of his life as a small-time London crook came out, and he claimed to have made the bomb from a recipe on the Internet. He seemed to be what he looked like, the ultimate loser...
...name the scientists behind the first cloned house pet gave their creation, a shorthaired calico that is a genetic (though not a visual) duplicate of her biological mom. Because she is so seductively cute--pulling at the same heartstrings an infant human clone would invariably tug--she lays bare the emotional subtext that has so far been missing in the great cloning debate. It's one thing to argue the merits of cloning when you're talking about uncuddly sheep, mice, cattle, goats and pigs. It's quite another when the clone is practically sitting in your lap, mewing...
Take Bob Orsillo’s haunting computer-generated portrayal of homelessness in his piece, “Lost Dreams.” This depicts the strong back of a naked man shrouded in fog, his bald head bent in despair, his bare foot poised to take a step into nowhere. He is surrounded by stone walls and contained in a jail-like space. One feels distinctly that he is trapped but the man is not quite aware of his state. The emptiness becomes a void and his dreams lay scattered and elusive as the cloudy wisps at his feet...