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When the students enter the lab, they see the cadavers set up on metal tables. The bodies are covered first with layers of plastic and material to keep them moist, and then with a blue denim-like cloth. A metal bucket at the end of the table collects the excess formaldehyde that drains from the body. "Sometimes [the bucket] seems like it's getting a little full," says Elbert Huang...

Author: By Molly B. Confer, | Title: Gross Anatomy at Harvard Medical School: | 11/7/1992 | See Source »

...campaign left two men of the cloth, Jesse L. Jackson and Pat Robertson, particularly red-faced...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, | Title: Tick-Tock, Flip-Flop | 10/3/1992 | See Source »

...epigrammatic force can be irresistible, especially where Magritte reflects on sexual violence, alienation or loneliness: the couple trying to kiss through layers of cloth in The Lovers (1928), or The Titanic Days (1928), his image of attempted rape, in which the bodies of the terrified woman and the attacking man are fused together as in a grim photographic overlap. Often his color is extremely beautiful, though the viewer, intent on the visual conundrums, may not at first notice how powerful and tender it can be. But as his friend Louis Scutenaire wrote, "Magritte is a great painter. Magritte...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Poker-Faced Enchanter | 9/21/1992 | See Source »

...strength of such traditions limits the degree to which American blacks can identify with Africa. Yet from time to time some black Americans have immersed themselves in the trappings of African culture. Recently, a black lawyer in Washington refused a judge's order to remove a Kente cloth shawl while appearing in court because it might influence black members of the jury. Some of us, including one black member of Congress, have cast aside our "slave names" and adopted African ones. Many of us celebrate pseudo- African holidays like Kwanzaa, in addition to Christmas. Across the land, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In African-American Eyes | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

...Penney, which made its name as a mass marketer, discovered the benefits of targeting when it set up 20 experimental boutiques stocked with caftans made from kente cloth, brimless hats called kufis, carved wooden masks and other items imported from West Africa. After selling out all the merchandise in just three months, the retailer expanded the concept to 100 more stores and will add American-made products with Afrocentric designs. In the entertainment world, art is imitating life: four of the five new comedies debuting on NBC this fall will star black actors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Buying Black | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

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