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Administrators say there was an element of appeasement in the foundation of the department. In his 1991 book The University: An Owner's Manual, Rosovsky likened the process by which Afro-Am became a department to an "academic Munich"-- a reference to the 1938 conference where the allied diplomats tried to appease Hitler...
There is one other element recognizable from our own time: a serial killer is at work. He (she, perhaps?) is a slasher who abducts and mutilates boy prostitutes and escapes over rooftops. One observer proposes the startling notion that a misty swirl of radical, unsettling new theories about the workings of the human mind could be used by detectives to create a / psychological profile of the murderer. The man who offers this theory is an alienist (people who commit bizarre acts are said to be alienated from their right minds), Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, once a student of William James...
...secret multimillion-dollar sale of osmium 187, a by-product of nuclear reactors that is not weapons related but is an extremely expensive metal with applications in nuclear-energy production. The middlemen in the deal included a former party official and a member of the KGB, who acquired the element worth $40,000 a gram from the factory and sold it to a Swedish company for $70,000 -- though it is not clear whether the profits went into private pockets or the depleted coffers...
Indeed, Roney is the highlight of this album. From his patient solo during the hyperspeed album opener, "So What," to his uncanny imitation of Miles himself on "All Blues" (harmon mute and all) Roney clearly is in his element. In part, Roney sounds so good because his open sound leaves plenty of room for the rhythm section to strut its stuff; pianist Hancock, bassist Carter and drummer Williams have never sounded better, tight as all hell and at the same time creatively lyrical. Carter's dazzling clarity, Hancock's chord driven, percussive flair, and Williams' inventive and at the same...
...political element of this exhibit reaches full expression in many of these works, which set up the standard women-as-victim-of-male-objectification stereotype and critique it simultaneously. Mary Rhinelander's "Alphabet" challenges what it perceives to be womens' ingrained domestic and cosmetic roles with the sardonic statements "K is for Kitchen; L is for Lipstick." Lorna Simpson's screenprint of two high-healed shoes, entitled "Cure/Heal," and Debra Olin's Good Girl Measure Her Waist" also address this theme...