Word: connections
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...carvings were emblems of ferocity, a thrilling rupture in the smooth herd of French metaphor painting. Seventy years later, for an artist to use African art in that way could only be racist condescension, or airport art, or both. So the problem for an artist who wants to connect his or her sense of black identity with the legacy of modernism, and do so while referring to Africa, is how to back into African imagery by allusion, metaphor, abstraction, any way except by direct quotation. In art, no American can return to Africa, except as a visitor. That is what...
...rotting pier in Greenwich Village, where homosexuals regularly risked mugging, fire, police raids and the possibility of falling into the Hudson River through holes in the pier. Why? One theory is that oppression by the straight world has taught many gays to connect sex with guilt, shame and danger. John Devere, editor in chief of the gay magazine Mandate, believes that living underground for so many years has given homosexuals an appetite for the underground. Says he: "The taste for an after-midnight world of exciting [violent] sexuality is not anything to be derided, or taken lightly...
Just as distressing, the F-X decision fails once again to connect trade with foreign policy aims. As long as the U.S. continues to sell planes, tanks, and guns to any government that feels--or imagines that it feels--the hot breath of Soviet pursuit, it runs the risk of being seen as a warmongering imperialist. With the production of a fighter plane strictly for export, we step blatantly into the role of "agent of destruction," not "defender of the free world...
Veterans, and their children who were conceived after the war, began displaying symptoms identical to those known to be caused by dioxin poisoning shortly after the servicemen returned to the U.S., but they and their doctors long failed to connect their illnesses to Agent Orange. After reading about the Seveso incident, however, Paul Reutershan, a veteran who was suffering from cancer of the colon, filed suit in 1977. He died the next year, at age 28, but by then Victor Yannacone Jr., the lawyer who had brought the 1966 suit that helped ban DDT, had taken up his case...
...people are crowding into the scruffy conference room at ABC's Manhattan news center on West 66th Street. Some stand, some sit on boxes of supplies-ABC does not waste money on frills-while eleven others sit around a long conference table studded with microphones. The microphones connect this office with bureaus in Washington, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Dallas and Los Angeles, where other people are waiting...