Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some stressful nights, Liz and Lily joke tooloud, leaving Erica trekking to Cabot ScienceLibrary in sweat pants with a box full of moleculeparts. She's scared Cabot could be a lot fartheraway next year...
...existence. Everybody knew the envelope: Festooned with the likenesses of Dick Clark and Ed McMahon, bulging with magazine subscription stickers and cheesily promising untold riches to you, John Q. Nobody. You'd dream a little, maybe even subscribe to a few magazines. But we all got the joke. Right...
...subject for a play. How many of us have felt a pang of betrayal when a close friend or loved one has failed to share our enthusiasm for a favorite movie or novel? But the issue is blunted here by the fact that the painting is treated as a joke from the start--and a dated one at that. It's the old wheeze about how abstract art appeals only to pretentious critics (and suckers like Serge), while ordinary folks see the emperor's new clothes...
...prove that the joke isn't so outdated after all. The play, in fact, is much like the painting onstage. It's slickly rendered; it's got the critics' imprimatur; and if you stare at it long enough, you can imagine all sorts of shadings and hidden lines. But take a deep breath and step back, and it's just an empty canvas...
...black and white. Kera Walker's recent installation in the Carpenter Center for the Arts appears in conjunction with Harvard's Change the Joke and Slip the Yoke: A Series of Conversations on the Use of Black Stereotypes in Contemporary Visual Practice." Walker's exhibit consists of silhouttes "Presenting Negro Scenes" that span the walls of the lobby...