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...place where Harvard struggled the most against Manhattan was on the offensive glass. The Crimson had just one offensive rebound during the first half. One Jasper player, Rosalee Mason—the nation’s fourth-leading rebounder as of Dec. 17—singlehandedly grabbed eight offensive rebounds, as many as the entire Harvard team...
Running parallel to the anti-war effort during the 1960s and 70s was Pop Art, which, like the Fluxus group, adopted everyday images. However, for Pop artists, these images became art for art’s sake. While Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol replicated images of consumer culture, rock and roll’s rebellion turned inwards toward the self. Studio 54’s house band, the Velvet Underground, took introspection to its apex, while No Wave bands would perform audienceless in the New York streets as firm proponents of music for music’s sake...
...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...