Word: jasper
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...pieces stick to art films, opera and dance. Her inimitably terse prose is recognizable from her previous criticism, particularly her tendency to issue elliptical, almost aphoristic judgments at an essay’s end. In addition, a few creative pieces—one an accompaniment for a Jasper Johns exhibit, the other a short parodic sketch of Pyramus and Thisbe—provide unsatisfying, indulgent interludes...
...Represents the United States of Dyslexia b) Is Jasper Johns' greatest artistic leap in 40 years c) Was hanging from the balcony on the night Abe Lincoln was killed d) Was Strom Thurmond's swaddling cloth...
...while that means that politicians in places as diverse as Las Vegas and Jasper County, S.C., are courting these constituents as never before, Hispanic political clout still lags far behind the numbers--and will for perhaps a generation to come, Latino leaders fear. Even in parts of the country where Latinos have long been the largest ethnic group, they only "help shape things," says University of Texas political scientist Rodolfo de la Garza. "They don't lead things. They don't define things...
...Though the mammoth exhibition attempts to stress the movement's international dimension, it ultimately recognizes that Pop Art is as quintessentially American as Jasper Johns' U.S. flag - one of the show's highlights - and serves as both an affirmation and a critique of modern American values. The show focuses on the period from 1956 to 1968 - that exuberant era between victory in World War II and defeat in Vietnam, between the bland complacency of the Eisenhower years and the twitchy paranoia of Nixon's divided nation. It was a time of prosperity and materialism that embraced such pop-cultural Meccas...
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