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Memorial bracelets have been around since the Vietnam War, when a student group, Voices in Vital America (VIVA), began a campaign on behalf of missing American soldiers and prisoners of war, using silver bands modeled after that of TV host (and future Congressman) Robert Dornan. The bracelets took off--Bob Dole, Ronald Reagan and Sonny and Cher all donned POW/MIA bands at one time or another--and VIVA sold more than 5 million before disbanding in 1976. (They are still available through the National League of Families...
...want to see how cyberspace is shifting Australian politics, look no further than Don Dornan's lounge room. That's where earlier this year 16 strangers gathered after meeting on the Internet - not lonely hearts but would-be activists. Dornan lives in the New South Wales town of Narooma, a seaside holiday spot in one of Australia's bellwether marginal seats, Eden-Monaro. He's never been a party member; he just got sick of "complaining about politicians but not knowing how to do anything about it." So when a friend emailed him about online activist group GetUp...
...into pink hair. We’ve all done it during that pre-teen punk-rock phase—or at least wished we could have pulled it off. 6. A toast to love at first sight! Because anyone would fall in love with Count Fersen (male model Jamie Dornan) and his lustful looks. 7. A shot for Antoinette’s herbal excursions—outside in a circle, her tentative inhalation, a stifled cough, a sly grin, and giggle. 8. Cheers and au revoir at the end: To youth, to carelessness, to excess, and naiveté. Death rears...
...genitals. But in 1980, when The Dinner Party went on a hugely popular national tour, all those pudendal things caused some people to take a deep breath. As late as 1990, when a proposal was made to house the work on a Washington campus, Republican Congressman Robert K. Dornan could still denounce it in the House as "ceramic 3-D pornography...
...Dornan is gone from the House. And The Dinner Party is handsomely installed at its new home in Brooklyn in a darkened triangular enclosure with reflective glass-lined walls. Designed by Susan T. Rodriguez of Polshek Partnership Architects, the space isn't as much a gallery as it is a shrine. (Can we get something like this for Michelangelo's Pietà?) And the work itself? The Dinner Party has been compared to the AIDS quilt, which seems right--up to a point. The quilt is a genuine piece of collective folk art, whereas The Dinner Party, though it required...