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...Walker's current Carpenter Center exhibition features a black man hunched over a banjo, a long drop of drool descending from his distended lower lip. Behind him, a kerchief-capped girl reaches to turn the enormous screw-key sprouting from his back like that of a wind up doll. Recalling the tradition of black minstrelsy, the key also suggests a brutally-planed pair of scissors--a silhouette cutter's tool craftily inscribed within the silhouette. This image alone might be taken as an icon for the controversy surrounding Walker's work, as viewers question whether her scissors puncture negative racial...
...Concord Avenue resident reported approximately $400 in Kennedy half dollars and a Spanish doll missing from a room in her home after another woman had stayed in the room between...
...gravity that provides ballast for the entire film. When, with his rich voice, he recalls how he explained to Denise why she couldn't eat at a segregated cafeteria, or discusses his favorite picture of her (taken with her Brownie camera in her bedroom as she clutches a blond doll), he conveys both deep pain and resoluteness...
...similar style, cut generously to be what Shull describes as "comfortable and functional." Cornell also carries remarkably cute children's clothing. A girl's play dress in the yellow, blue and green "Fields of Clover" pattern has alternating yellow and blue buttons down the front and comes with a doll wearing the same outfit. A cloth hat and purse complete the ensemble...
...Sevillana bar where I found myself that night, there was a long moment of silence before the singing of the salve, a traditional song offered at midnight every night to an imagen, a doll-like, elaborately dressed statue ensconced in glass on one side of the bar. With guitar and castanets, two men wailed the chant in praise of and prayer to the Virgin, their voices mixing in harmony and discord, an aching sound similar to flamenco song...