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...about 5:45 p.m., the most beautiful time of day, when the sun glows orange and the river’s reflective darkness stands out against the rusty color of the sky and the luxuriant spinach green of the jungle. As I sat idly watching and sipping my coffee, I was startled by the sight of two small gray porpoises jumping in sync out of the river....Almost immediately, from around the bend came two Pirahã canoes, their riders paddling for all they were worth, in pursuit of the porpoises, trying to touch them with their paddles...
Distorted images line the walls of the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery, where five projectors each display a disassembled and digitally manipulated film loop. Each malformed video produces a different effect: an old Western movie is blurred in a way that leaves pixilated smudges of color on the screen every time an object moves, while a more abstract image shows hundreds of arrows rotating and flashing in place around a centered square. Several other clips recall online videos that have only partially loaded...
...24/7. You can't woo people only during election time." She has urged Republicans to buy advertisements promoting Republican candidates on black-oriented television and radio stations, locally and nationally. She also runs the Pennsylvania New Majority Council, which aims to boost GOP support among people of color. During Tom Ridge's 1994 Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign, Amoore recalls, she took him to some of the bleakest areas of north Philadelphia. "This is what our candidates need to see - how people are living, and how they can help those people," she says. Amoore believes Ridge's visit helped...
...full agreement with jakes until he wrote: "As Barack Hussein Obama places his brown hand on that black Bible ..." Neither "color" reference was necessary. Such gratuitous emphasis on racial differences will surely not help "black, white and brown" do as Jakes suggests and "melt into a brilliant depiction of red, white and blue." Rich Zettlemoyer, Gold Canyon, Arizona
...Obamas are bigger than the Cyruses, and the ironies are plenty. That fashion glossies, which once rarely had cover models of color, would be jockeying for photo shoots with Michelle. That a TV business with long-standing diversity issues would be fascinated with this family's values. And that a still white-dominated press would look to a black man to boost its bottom line, fix the economy and save the planet. But will he still have time to take the kids to school when he's done? Tune in next week and find...