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...When I remember the day, I remember concrete things. I remember how I last heard the door slam when my mother left, or the smell of the hair gel that I wore that day. Remembering days makes me conscious of the nature of loss, of the cruel synaesthesia of memory. It is a memory of my mother becoming a memory, of how 12 years of my life became the only years with my mother...
...Navy, as well as the psychiatric evaluations he received after his return from Vietnam. He has long maintained that he never suffered flashbacks or posttraumatic stress disorder, though he admitted in his memoir that "for a long time after coming home, I would tense up whenever I heard keys rattle," a sound made by his prison guards...
Legible or not, that kind of thing was not to everyone's taste. If you were a formalist, dedicated to the ever more stringent purification of color and form, all those goats and chickens were dumb and demoralizing. Hadn't this guy ever heard of the sublime? But if you were a young artist looking for permission to do something utterly new, Rauschenberg's interlocking serendipities, his big yes to everything, were a key that turned in your brain. All kinds of subsequent art?Pop, installations, even performance art?would owe something to the combines...
Brown said that she only heard of the incident by word-of-mouth. Her boyfriend, who is also employed at the Medical School, happened to overhear a conversation concerning the attack last week while in Cambridge, she added...
...Pittsburgh, once the Steel City, has moved on, but not Senator Clinton. I felt I had heard all of this stuff before. Not just on CNN last week. Such derogatory comments about China's trade practices are now common in America's political and media discourse. No, I had heard these statements a long, long time ago. When I was a college student, in the late 1980s...