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...wrong gender. Moreover, the portion of the brain that seems to be different in transsexuals is smaller than a pinhead. Even advanced imaging techniques, like the pet scan or mri, cannot detect such tiny variations. To do their research, the Dutch team, led by Dr. Dick Swaab, had to dissect the brains of transsexuals in autopsies and examine them under a microscope. Little wonder, then, that it took Swaab's team 11 years to find transsexual candidates, persuade them to donate their brains and then wait for them to die to make the comparisons...
...took him to school one day. Someone wanted to dissect him because his name was frog. They even chased him with sticks...
...emphasize age, gender or sexual orientation over ethnicity. Others, like Morrison and novelist Charles Johnson, whose Middle Passage won the National Book Award for fiction in 1990, explore the black experience in America. Still others, such as Wolfe, choreographer David Rousseve and writer Darius James (Negrophobia: An Urban Parable), dissect racial stereotypes, while those like choreographer Ralph Lemon and sculptor Martin Puryear reflect no identifiable racial content at all. Rita Dove summarizes the trend best when she says: "There are times when I am a black woman who happens to be a poet and times when I am a poet...
...exhibition consists of many abstract expressionists who confront and dissect the issues of color. In two characteristic works by Franz Kline, color is reduced to the essentials, black and white. He creates a world of undefinable forms and limited space through the use of thick brushstroke and straight edges. In Composition (1952), space is sectioned off by geometric forms, creating depth and volume within a closed space. The white has traces of black to reveal the underlying layers of the painting as well as to indicate the presence of the painter himself. High Street (1950) portrays a more complicated definiton...
...counterbalance the near-hysteria of Leigh's social caricatures. And the breathing space they provide force one to contemplate how close to reality those caricatures are. Because you can take it from me that British society does still revolve around antiquated, almost tribal social rituals. And Mike Leigh does dissect them with a frightening precision in this film...