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...caught in a box, naked muscular forms that are sometimes bowed in resignation or despair, sometimes tensely flexed against their prison. In one series of paintings, the same rectangular form becomes the basis for a crouching, partially dissected Man Posing as an Animal, or a twisted animal in Resting Beast, or agonized Homo sapiens in Self-Wrestling. Following a visit last year to Chile, with which U.C.L.A. has a reciprocal art exchange program, Stüssy began painting women, a fact his sculptress wife, Kim, partly attributes to the shapely Chilean women Stüssy saw everywhere standing solemnly with...
...five campers near Trout Lake, none of the standard tips for discouraging bears seemed to work. Snuffling ever closer, the beast ignored their bonfire and invaded the camp. As they cowered in sleeping bags, feigning death and hiding their heads in blankets, the grizzly ripped apart packs and bit into bedrolls, and even slashed the shirt from the back of one camper, who lunged in desperation and hit the bear on the nose. When the grizzly reared to its full height, the campers bolted for trees, but Michele Koons, 19, caught in her sleeping bag, was dragged away screaming...
However much Cortazar may remind readers of Poe, Maupassant, and Camus, his cool style and gothic viewpoint make him a unique storyteller. He can induce the kind of chilling unease that strikes like a sound in the night. What is it-a burglar, beast or spectral thing? If it occurs in a Cortazar story, it is likely to be something nameless and decidedly lethal...
Until the mid-19th century, sexual deviation involving man, woman or beast could be punished by death. The celebrated trial of Oscar Wilde took place under an 1885 law specifically decreeing that "indecent acts between males in public or private are a criminal offense." The old Draconian laws, however, did not fetch in many offenders: fewer than 100 homosexuals have been convicted annually in Britain in recent years, and the occasional publicized case has evoked more public sympathy for the defendant than support for the prosecution. In fact, the new bill really frees homosexuals from the fear of blackmail rather...
...year-old white woman in this town and brutally raped her. Brutally raped her. Did the people go out and say that nigger was a victim of discrimination and that's why he raped her? No. Three thousand people from this town rose up, took that beast out, and hung him." The speaker was one of six leaders of a National States Rights Party rally last August in front of the courthouse in Princess Anne, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Inside the courthouse, two Negroes were being held on charges of raping a white woman. The demonstrators...