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...Australia, Guan Wei's career has grown more steadily. His calligraphic, comic-book-style paintings have lightened in hue as much as they have widened in scope. In recent years, they've become great swathes of blue across which his themes of exile and emancipation play out. While appealing to corporate collections - "that's how you make influence," notes curator Binghui - he hasn't shied away from hot-button issues like asylum seekers. "There was a moment when he was a Chinese artist living in Australia, then he became a Chinese-Australian artist, and now he's an Australian artist...
...that the story has no reek of allegory or race didacticism where you might expect it. Instead, there’s humor, as when a black woman confronts Julia in the grocery store about how to properly style Gabe’s hair, a naturally blond hue which she accuses Julia of peroxiding, or when Julia’s friends speculate about the real identity of the baby’s father...
...actual dynamite, which they used multiple times to blow up the famous water pump in front of Stoughton Hall. Long before The Crimson editorialized and The Lampoon lampooned, an elite Harvard society banded together against the administration, painting the town red and the John Harvard statue a similar crimson hue...
...women, they all live in New York City, and until now almost nobody had heard of any of them. In a year with books by Russell Banks, Cynthia Ozick, Tom Wolfe, John Updike and Philip Roth, the fiction committee went for five relative unknowns. That caused a hue and cry in literary circles, although, admittedly, literary types love a good hue and cry, and it doesn't take much to get them going...
...fact, no oneexcept, perhaps, Karl Rove and Dick Cheneyreally knows what sort of President Bush will show up on Jan. 20 to begin his second term. There are two schools of wishful thinking. One is the "legacy" school, composed mostly of Washington-establishment Republicans of both moderate and conservative hue. "Second terms are about legacy," said a G.O.P. establishmentarian. "I think you'll see a midcourse correction and admission of errors on Iraq now that the Democrats can't make a negative ad about it. I think you'll see him make a real move on expanding health care...