Word: fae
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Whither PJ Harvey? Three years ago, while on tour to promote her unforgettable To Bring You My Love album, the reclusive English songstress revamped herself in an almost literal way. Suddenly she became a sort of hybrid of Tammy Fae Baker and Siouxsie Sioux, her eyes swathed in colors more appropriate to tropical fish, her red gash of a mouth hissing out the stories of weary paramours and suffering Magdalenes, then growling out feverish invocations that "Yeah I'm ready to meet ze monsta tonight...
...redemption and horror. Her striking installation monopolizes the historic connotations and graphic irony of the cutpaper silhouette, which despite its crisp, precise line shadows its subjects and prevents full narrative disclosure. In addition, both Zoe Leonard's archive of 82 distressed photographs from the life of the fictitious actress Fae Richards and Michael Ashkin's sculpture of two tiny trucks crossing an expansive landscape provide equally elliptical yet strangely engrossing narratives...
Many physicians had written off this kind of organ swapping between species back in 1984, when Dr. Leonard Bailey of Loma Linda University Hospital in California transplanted a baboon's heart into a two-week-old infant known as Baby Fae. Three weeks after the operation, the child died of kidney failure, and Bailey was heavily criticized for experimenting on a human with little chance of success...
PANAMA AND IRAQ solidified the new total war strategy in the hearts and minds of Americans. The best example of that solidification is the strange trajectory of the Fuel Air Explosive (FAE) documented by Michael E. Kinsley '72 in The New Republic...