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...women remains uncertain. The interim government has two women in leadership roles, but in a chilling echo of the past, the Northern Alliance has asked for the names of the 4,000 women in her civil rights group. Still, Parlika is hopeful that this time her work will bear fruit. "This is just the beginning," she says...
...opposite extreme from this image is Signac's wonderful and bizarre Portrait of Felix Feneon, Opus 217, 1890-91--the fox-jawed face with its little tuft of beard in profile, the hand holding a cyclamen, against a madly spiraling background of fruit-jelly abstract forms. The dandified, loony energy of Feneon's argot-filled writing seems impacted into that background, even though its source is a Japanese kimono pattern. My, you think, those guys must have had some laughs together. Which they...
...Avocado: Fruit or Vegetable...
...STRANGE FRUIT: Kirkus and PW are overwhelmed by "At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America" by Philip Dray (Random House; January 22), both giving the book a starred review. Says Kirkus: "The ghastly story of lynching, by the coauthor of 'We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi'...This is history most fundamental, the kind that forces us to ponder the very nature of humanity." PW agrees: "Prodigiously researched, tightly written and compelling history of the lynching of African-Americans...Dray balances moral indignation with a sound...
There used to be fruit snacks in the cabinet, like Gushers, those capsules of wonderfully colored gooey chemicals that tasted sweet and for some reason were packaged and sold to parents of small children. Now that no one packs school lunches in my house anymore, the former snack cabinet is stacked high with cans of tomato paste, tuna fish, and other non-perishables. If my dad has been to the natural foods co-op recently, there may be a bag of “chunks of energy” that seem to be made entirely of congealed tofu and birdseed...