Word: functions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...easily forgotten; incidents of child abuse are not. But that very painful memories can be buried is documented; studies show that 18-59 percent of victims of sexual abuse forget about their suffering for some period of time. That victims must forget about the experiences in order to function is evidence for the horror of the crimes, not their nonexistence. Crimes too painful to remember should not go unpunished; they should be punished the more for their insidiousness...
While it sometimes feels as if the Whigs are telling the same story on each tune-that of a man out of control and unable to function in a relationship-the tunes themselves are good solid rock. Nothing on this album will blow any listeners away, but most will find the Afghan Whigs a comfortable alternative to more highly touted but less interesting mainstream rock. For the grunge fan tired of Pearl Jam, it might be worth it to give the Whigs a whirl...
...white) residents. Stability is white. Disorder is black. Nowhere do we learn what stable middle-class blacks think or do to cope with the "breaking waves of immigration." The overwhelming majority of African Americans, hardworking and stable, are out of the loop, disappeared except in their less than covert function of defining whites as the "true" Americans...
...America. I think we should respect different cultures but not become factionalized." Claudia Hammock, a teacher at the Cary Reynolds school, agrees: "We do try to keep their native customs and try to show them we want them to remember. But we also want them to learn to function in an English-speaking world...
...that's just the beginning. "All American art is a function of the hybrid culture that resulted from centuries of immigration to this nation," says David Ross, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art. "We're just more dramatically aware of it today." American culture used to be depicted as a Eurocentric melting pot into which other cultures were stirred and absorbed. The recent waves of newcomers have changed that. Today it seems more like a street fair, with various booths, foods and peoples, all mixing on common sidewalks...