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...Warhol raises questions about why we call certain things art, and how the mainstream of popular culture looks at and effects artistic progress. He raises similar questions about popular attitudes toward money (large $-signs on blank canvases), sensationalism (silk screen paintings of car crashes and electric chairs) and fundamentalist Christianity (a painting that says simply "Repent and Sin No More...
...destroyed by a 220-lb. car bomb. The ferocious blast killed at least 28 people and injured 235. Lebanon's Islamic Jihad terrorist group took responsibility, then later denied it. In the first message, the group said it was avenging Israel's Feb. 16 assassination of the Shi'ite fundamentalist leader Sheik Abbas Musawi, his family and bodyguards. Israel, feeling all the more victimized as a result of ! the bombing, was quick to swear vengeance of its own. "Those who carried out the murder and those who sent them can expect painful punishment," said Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy...
...1980s that understanding of the term seemed to disappear. In the decade's dismissive shorthand, feminism came to mean denigrating motherhood, pursuing selfish goals and wearing a suit. Whereas feminism was hip and fashionable in the '70s, antifeminism became socially acceptable in the '80s. First the fundamentalist right, then the White House -- and ultimately Hollywood, television and many journalists -- held feminism responsible for "every woe besetting women," Faludi writes, "from mental depression to meager savings accounts, from teenage suicides to eating disorders to bad complexions...
...policy, which outlawed all discriminationin housing, jobs and public accomodations,"provoked a right-wing fundamentalist challenge tome," the candidate says...
...write to protest...the unseemly arrogance ofHarvard's fundamentalist Protestant and Catholicyahoos," Kilson wrote. "To protest their cheekyAmerican yahoo pretense to speak in behalf ofChristian humanistic decency and Christiancharity...