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...make an average of 11 trips to Las Vegas over a five-year period now make only seven. So the city of "Lost Wages" is repositioning itself in the leisure market. "We're no longer a gaming resort but a destination resort," says Chamber of Commerce senior vice president Kara Kelley...
...Satan will assure that Pol Pot's everlasting sleep is anything but peaceful [WORLD, April 27], then justice will have been served! KARA SULLIVAN Silver Spring...
...sought out her teachers, telling them that Mitchell seemed upset and violent. "She was really worried," says Engels. "But I don't think the school took any notice of it." Principal Karen Curtner insists that neither she nor any teachers were informed of such reports. But, says sixth-grader Kara Tate, "he said he was definitely going to shoot Candace because she had broken up with him." Apparently furious that no one was taking his heartache seriously, Mitch at this point allegedly pulled a knife on a classmate. He also issued a more wide-ranging threat. On the day before...
From the title alone, one can gather that Kara Walker's exhibit positions itself on a fine edge between mockery and representation, between historical narrative and cultural commentary. Rather than narrating history, Walker uses history as a backdrop for a less literal, though just as real, melodrama. Her work unabashedly analyzes the collective unconscious of the American psyche. What she dredges up--racist imagery involving bestiality, child abuse, feces and more--is not pretty. It is grotesque, disgusting, ingenious and eerily beautiful...
Talking about form in Kara Walker's racially-charged art may sound a bit like commenting on lighting in Mapplethorpe. But Formalism isn't always a fancy cover for prudishness, and when discussing such inflammatory art it's all too easy to get caught up in political generalities, as most of Walker's critics do. Words like "sexism," "racism," and "stereotype" circulate with little direct attention to how the art object conveys meaning through its form. It's time to start looking closely...