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...Jarry's. One of the portraits of French intellectuals in his extravagantly controversial 1947 show at the Galerie Rene Drouin depicted the Surrealist writer Georges Limbour under the title Limbour Fashioned from Chicken Droppings. And even critics who disliked such mordant images were right on target about the context into which Dubuffet emerged, that of a postwar Paris depressed by material shortages and riven by political suspicions. "An empty pantry," wrote one critic, "assures the triumph of a Dubuffet...
...have all but disappeared from prime time, and the few recent offerings have been too distracted by other matters -- skewering small-town life in Picket Fences; cheerleading for the rights of autistic children in Life Goes On -- to pay much attention to the way families really interrelate. In this context, Laurel Avenue, an HBO mini-series airing in two 90-minute segments this month, is almost a breakthrough...
Pfister said Donoghue is well-known in the field for his work with philogenetic trees, the analysis of the relationships between different vascular plants in a broader evolutionary context. He said Donoghue is also working with molecular techniques important in molecular philogeny, which studies how molecular characteristics and components of different groups explain group evolution...
Guinier stands by her position that Clinton, like her other critics, just didn't get it. "I think that the President and many others have misinterpreted my writings, which were written in an academic context, which are very nuanced, which are very ponderous," she said. On the latter points, no one will argue with her. Guinier's work is mainly directed toward a small audience of law professors who specialize in the Voting Rights Act, the 1965 federal statute that protects racial minorities from electoral discrimination...
...Guinier's writing is tailor-made to be selectively used against her. Conservative groups and other critics circulated copies of her writings to news organizations, highlighting portions that were purported to take far-out positions. In her appearance on Nightline, Guinier argued that the quoted passages were out of context. She insisted that she was giving "a description of other people's views" in the Michigan article when she contended that "authentic leaders are those elected by black voters," thereby suggesting that black politicians elected by white majorities are not legitimate. Even in context, it is unclear whether...