Word: interred
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little desire to spend the week searching for beach towel space among throngs of other well-oiled and intoxicated people our own age. In pursuit of sun and sand without the MTV Beach House backdrop, we abandoned the college spring break scene and headed out on a inter-generational adventure. (Anyway, staying with the relatives is the easiest way to be cost effective...
...generations and lots in the way of El Nino-induced drizzle. So with the prototypical National Park day of driving, staring at Visitor Center displays, and photographing rock formations with names like "Pirate's Skull" under our belt, we proceeded to that locus of unique inter-generational experiences--Leisure World, home to Abby's grandmother and 22,000 other Californians over the age of fifty-five...
Moments into our Leisure-World experience, we found ourselves walking a rat-sized dog named Lady along spotless sidewalks. While Lady, appropriately accessorized with a pink bow and a tumor half her size, waddled through pristine gardens, we relished our inter-generational paradise. Surrounded by Buicks, pastel buildings, and sweater-clad dogs, we truly had stumbled into spring break Twilight Zone...
...multiple times in the exhibit, yet never establishing a clear victim and persecutor. This is one of the central strengths of the exhibit. While it tackles such complex and political topics as black assimilation, it never devolves into a narrative of either blame or exoneration. Rather, Walker explores the inter-connection between white cruelty and black mimicry of whites, between white fetishistic desire of the black female and black female self-annihilation. The ingenuity of Walker's work is that, not only does she represent these cultural phenomena, but she examines how they form a support network, mutually feeding...
Other audience members pointed to the dialogue as a start to ending some of the nation's inter-minority tensions...