Word: frame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...text and recorded bits of conversation, she focuses on the ways in which black women are treated like objects in everyday language and imagery. In a 1992 piece, Self-Possession, Simpson uses a Polaroid frontal image of a woman's torso dressed in black. Its red-gloved hands frame her abdomen and the words IS 9/10THS OF THE LAW. Simpson has also collaborated with actress Alva Rogers on Places with a Past, a work that combines audiotapes, relics and photographs to evoke the slave trade in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1990 Simpson was the first African- American woman artist...
...history overfloweth in Ryszard Kapuscinski's Imperium (Knopf; 332 pages; $24). After journeying 40,000 miles through the crumbling Soviet + Union between 1989 and 1991, the Polish journalist leaves the gloomy impression that debris is piling up faster than it can be removed. The windows of his railroad car frame pictures of rusted tanks and artillery sinking in the mud. From the air, polluted lakes stare back like the cloudy eyes of dead fish. At the Yerevan airport, Kapuscinski finds four broken toilets and hundreds of travelers awaiting flights for days and sometimes weeks...
After all, Zdrok still represents Playboy's--and, implicity, Western society's--image of beauty: blonde, busty and a Barbie-doll waist. Her 5'9", 120-pound frame isn't exactly doing much to encourage healthier notions of the female body, either...
Marilyn Sokol (Gittel, Sender Shlamazel, Yenta Pesha) is a performing genious as far as bawdy presentational exhibition is concerned, and Charles Levin (Gronam Ox) knows how to sing and strut mock arrogance and hammed idiocy as well as anyone. Remo Airaldi, with a stout frame assisting, caricatures overweight kids and clever petty thieves with equal virtuosity. So why are they only supporting performers...
...their 30s, were friends and mentors to the 27-year-old Cobain. "I spoke to ((Cobain)) on the telephone a lot the week and a half before he disappeared," says Stipe. "We wanted to collaborate. I thought it was something that could have pulled him out of the frame of mind he was in and get him to a place where positive stuff was going on." Stipe started writing the lyrics to Let Me In before Cobain's death and finished the song afterward. Stipe also dedicated the new album to another personal friend -- actor River Phoenix, who died last...