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...more delicious workings of karma that Singapore, which criminalizes homosexuality, should have as its leading young poet an openly gay man. But while Cyril Wong relishes waving "a purple flag" in socially conservative faces, his work expands beyond simple sexuality - being "just a gay poet," as he puts it - to embrace themes of love, alienation and human relationships of all kinds. His latest volume of verse, Tilting Our Plates to Catch the Light, is due to be published this month, hopefully to burnish further the international reputation that the previous five collections have established...
...tabloid stills. A View Through a Window shows a goon with a gun and blood-spattered clothes looming over a corpse, watched by respectful policemen. Another Madonna, in which a wailing mother huddles over her three dead sons, their faces daubed in the emerald green of the Pakistani flag, marries a classic theme with a scene that might easily have come from today's papers...
Subtler, but just as topical, is the creepily hypnotic work of Sana Arjumand, also in the Aicon show. Her glassy-eyed women play with the props of Pakistani nationalism - founding father Mohammad Ali Jinnah, and the crescent and star of the flag. In I am Flexible. Are You?, a spaced-out woman, dangling like a slack marionette, bends down to pick up a crescent, in a pose of submission, both sexual and political...
...forty years ago. I opposed the cancellation of a speech by Tom Paulin, who advocated the murder of Israelis. I defended, pro bono, a virulently anti-Israel Stanford professor who was fired for inciting violence. I opposed Harvard’s attempt to prevent students from flying the Palestinian flag to commemorate the death of mass-murderer Yasser Arafat...
...Harvard lapse in the entire game, the Eli could not even muster an extra point. If the first half score of 27-0 was not indication enough of Harvard’s superiority, halftime further demonstrated Yale’s incompetence. A Yalie who clumsily attempted to steal our flag was manhandled by a gang of Harvard cheerleaders. And while the Harvard halftime show involved beheading and dismembering a bulldog—perhaps not our best or most original idea, but an entertaining one nonetheless—Yale’s effort was downright quizzical. Amidst the nonsense, one thing...