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...anonymity has been as crucial a part of Banksy's mythology as irony and wit. "Anything that's ever been written about him centers around the anonymity - that he's this Batman, this cult figure," says Pedro Alonzo, who curated an exhibition in England to which Banksy contributed. But that doesn't necessarily mean being unmasked would hurt Banksy's popularity. The intrigue over his identity has been a "double-edged sword," Alonzo says, since it has occluded the messages bundled in his art. "His work is a call to action. It's about hierarchies of power, social injustice...
...week, which are typically sold at the shops that receive the donations. That's why the designer boutiques are expected to work best in posh areas. "Like attracts like," Farquhar explains. Clothes deemed unsuitable for sale at individual shops end up at Oxfam's "wastesaver" operation in Huddersfield, north England. From there, some are sold via Oxfam's online shop, while others are sold in bulk to dealers in developing countries. Clothes that are completely unwearable are shredded and sold for use as mattress stuffing or automotive soundproofing...
...chance to cast my ballot for someone. Harold Freiman Berkeley Your article paints Cuomo as a man who is deeply influenced by Roman Catholicism. It attributes to the Governor a lifelong fealty to the ideals of St. Thomas More, the statesman-martyr under King Henry VIII in 16th century England. Cuomo's fealty, however, crumbles in a most crucial aspect. St. Thomas More put his faithfulness to Roman Catholic teaching ahead of his political career and even his life when he was martyred for not assenting to the King's divorce and marriage to Anne Boleyn. Mario Cuomo...
...paid off: Dutch Schultz's mob guaranteed ''protection'' for Teddy's daughter when at 16 she began her career as a dancer at Harlem's Cotton Club. Yet Lena, though she followed in her parents' wayward footsteps, remained very much the proper granddaughter, combining ''ante-bellum manners and New England values.'' In later years she would go through a divorce and marry a white man, the orchestra leader and arranger Lennie Hayton. Between marriages she would even dare a brief fling with Joe Louis. But until she was 19, Lena had never had a boyfriend. Rather disastrously, she married...
...self-defense is conspicuous among the motives that have put firearms into about half of all U.S. homes. The results of such preparedness? A new study suggests that a gun in the house is a bigger threat to the inhabitants than to anybody else. In last week's New England Journal of Medicine, Physicians Arthur L. Kellermann and Donald T. Reay analyze 398 shooting deaths that occurred from 1978 to 1983 in households with guns in the Seattle area. The score: only nine deaths involved an intruder or were considered self-defense. Among the other deaths in gun-keeping households...