Word: figuredness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When a local college student recently inquired why he came out in the way he did, Broussard paused for a moment. It was a question he had never been asked. "I figured somebody had to be the bush hog and clear the path for people who follow," he eventually replied...
It's a show that isn't dependent on plot surprises, or even plot development for that matter--from the outset, Marvin declares his crisis over his personal and sexual identity, and the rest is just a matter of assessing how the people in his life have figured into it...
Porter's feeling for the old masters, and his oblique way of quoting them -- testing himself against them -- is quite explicit in a painting like The Mirror, 1966. It is his homage to Velazquez's Las Meninas. A young girl sits with her back to a large mirror, propped up...
"We figured he was dead or in jail or in the appropriate facility," says Milt Ahlerich, a New Haven, Connecticut, FBI agent, "but he's back in a big way, which is all the more maddening." Ahlerich says the bombs' construction linked the new cases to the old perpetrator. "The...
In this country, at this great university, saving the best means something very particular. It means saving your unprecedented historical achievement in ethnic coexistence. It is no accident that when boat people are found floating in some distant sea, their preferred destination is invariably North America. Not just because of...