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...Birds of a Feather Sleep Together...
...worn a feather boa. He has body-slammed and headlocked his opponents. But the struggle over the Reform Party was too much for the former Navy SEAL and onetime professional wrestler. JESSE VENTURA was done with the party's atomization into factions and fiefs, the carping from Dallas, its creeping Buchananism. When JOHN ANDERSON, who ran for President as an independent in 1980, visited Ventura in Minnesota a few months back, he could tell the Governor was getting fed up. "He was tired of the dramatis personae," recalls Anderson, who briefly flirted with the idea of seeking the Reform Party...
...What feather are you looking for next...
...want one from Alcatraz. You know, Birdman of Alcatraz. The fact that it's an island and for prisoners, the idea of flight. The feather has to do with defying gravity, up or down. Also, the feather, white feathers particularly, can be a symbol of cowardice. I like the story of Icarus flying into the sun. It seems like a very banal, everyday object; they're floating everywhere. I think I have one from the Alamo, you know, famous sites...I travel a lot. If you're traveling, you can't carry much with you. Feather, dust, tarnish rubbing--those...
Parker is the consummate pack-rat, collecting and cherishing all kinds of seemingly worthless objects--rocks, feathers, tarnish rubbings. She combines these materials in ways that are often stunning visually, and, at the same time, she uses them as a means of making associations and narratives. She says that she is intrigued by Freud's theory of the unconscious and has made a photogram of a white feather that came from the pillow on the infamous couch. The feather is associated with slumber, slumber with dreams, dreams with the unconscious and then we're back again at Freud. Parker often...