Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sure, umbrellas help keep you dry, but so do raincoats. Of course, an umbrella eliminates the need to wear a hat or a hood to keep your head dry, but this marginal gain for the umbrella carrier leaves the unarmed streetwalker at constant risk of personal injury. Moreover, while umbrellas may keep some individuals dryer than they would otherwise be, their widespread use inevitably leads to a wetter sidewalk population as innocent bystanders are forced into puddles and drenched by diverted drips...
...underworld of hidden meanings, exposing the rampant process of fabrication in which symbols are manipulated to guide mass ideology. In "Strategies of Lying," Umberto Eco performs a structural operation to demonstrate how Nixon's image-making speeches were variations on the same mythic elements composing Little Red Riding Hood. Michel de Certeau's "The Jabbering, of Social Life" reduces politics to a social organ polluting the environment with mindless dogma. The heralding of the Reagan Age is also blamed on a carefully-devised strategy of ignorance that is not without its humor...
...what about this?" says a companion, trashing logic and pulling the cape over the friend's head, buttoning it under the neck to make a watertight hood. The designer looks; his head tilts. "How do you think it?" his friend teases...
Dartmouth's Hood Musuem similarly tries to offer students and visitors a wide selection of artistic styles, from pre-Columbian art to contemporary work. One thing that sets the Hood apart from other college collections is the fact that it houses both ethnographic and traditional...
Thus, 20th century American art and African art exhibits sit side by side, says Hood Curator Barbara McAdam. "We're on a smaller scale than Harvard," she says, explaining that the museum was built to house more than 40,000 objects which were previously scattered throughout the campus in many small galleries...