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...Fogg Museum's latest exhibit, "Prints of Darkness," glorifies the role of black in art. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints Marjorie B. Cohn has organized her, exhibition around a strong the matic core--the centrality of black in people's conception of art, emotion, politics and society. Cohn "invites" her viewers to examine the string of black rectangles contained in the exhibit with imagination, and to consider the importance of black in our conceptual ordering of the world...
Through its exploration of the emotional and symbolic impact of black, Cohn's exhibit tries to show that "every cultural construct, from alchemy to academe, from liturgy to law, has found a role for black." According to Cohn, black has permeated our society as a "symbol of the absolute." The ubiquitous power of black is further evidenced in the political realm--"blackness has become a mark and divider of the races." While these observations appear self-evident, When grouped together they have a greater impact...
With Andy's help, the hip crowd of the '70s became just a cocaine-addled update on the old cafe society. The entourage admitted through the velvet rope at Studio 54 would be Liza and Halston and Bianca, and so on down to -- why not? -- Roy Cohn, the aide-de-camp of Senator Joe McCarthy and arguably Satan's first lieutenant. The meaning of hip was reconfigured to embrace the greed and swank and snobbery it used to reject. It would be summed up later in a song by Billy Joel...
...York Review of Books, the New Republic and the current home of his column, New York Newsday, Kempton's book calls forth a cavalcade of heroes and scoundrels of the past 50 years and more -- among them Benito Mussolini, F.D.R., Richard Nixon, Bessie Smith, Karl Marx, Goya, Roy Cohn, Cassius Clay and one Stella Valenza, a housewife on trial for "hiring three mechanics to rid her of her husband, Felice." To Kempton, the insignificant deserves as much attention as the momentous; he gives the auctioning of Marilyn Monroe's address book the same careful scrutiny as the postcommunism paralysis...
...accident of rolodexes," says Lukefahr the invitation list of original founders at Hickory Hill. "Everybody can't be included. We tried to include as many bleeders as possible." Half of the liberal who were invited declined. "They just wanted us to give them some legitimacy," explains Jonathan S. Cohn '91, a former Crimson president and writer for the American Prospect. And two prominent liberals who signed the Third Millennium declaration, Rob Nelson and Jon Cowan of Lead or Leave, later repudiated any affiliation with the group...