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...unabashedly discuss their sexual relationships before their young audiences in the way that the children on "The Cosby Show" once took pleasure in speaking of simpler, more innocent relationships. Along with so much else that has fallen prey to "progressivism," there are indications that chastity, not unlike its cousin chivalry, is passe...
...often makes it difficult for drawings to get a word in edgewise. Yet despite tough odds, several works manage to distinguish themselves from the more academic studies in the show. Dave Steiner's two hilariously captivating oil drawings explore his psychological relationship with a grinning frog doll, possibly a cousin of Kermit. "Froggy with Orator" depicts a man sitting behind a table, one index finger raised in exclamation. But the orator's bulging-eyed companion doesn't seem to be listening as he charmingly mugs for us on the right side of the table. Another monochromatic oil drawing casts...
...eagerly agreed to accompany his brother Rene, newly established as a New Orleans cotton merchant, back to the New World in 1872. A transatlantic passage and a snaky voyage through the eastern United States dropped the Degas brothers at the New Orleans train station, where Edgar Degas met his cousins, the Mussons, for the first time, Rene, who had married a Musson daughter, had warned the family to expect a "g-r-r-r-eat artist," but Degas was cousin first and artist afterward to the Mussons. Their warm acceptance gave him the freedom of painting intimate family portraits...
...that it also helped prevent osteoporosis. The drug seemed to act like an estrogen in the bone but an anti-estrogen in the breast. Unfortunately, it also acted like an estrogen in the uterus, dramatically increasing the risk of uterine cancer. So researchers set out to find a chemical cousin of tamoxifen that would be easier on the uterus...
Just as troubling, a woman who has taken raloxifene and then develops breast cancer may reduce her options for fighting the malignancy. Because raloxifene is a distant cousin of the cancer-fighting drug tamoxifen, some scientists are worried that any tumor cells that survive are likely to be resistant to tamoxifen as well...