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...tried to envision Quayle, a chief spokesperson of the "traditional family values" agenda (an agenda in which African-Americans, other people of color and poor people have been subtly and not so subtly positioned as the enemy), my mind kept flashing back to Madonna and her film "Truth or Dare." Why was my mind forging this seemingly ridiculous connection between two people who in every way seem to deny just such a connection? The answer became clear soon enough: racial appropriation...
...understand the ways in which Huggins' statement applies to Quayle, Madonna and racial appropriation, let's "deconstruct," if you will, the three...
...entire, and in his time still viable, tradition of European painting. Conversation is, on one level, an intimate interior -- the painter in his pajamas chatting with Mme. Matisse in her chair. But its hieratic grandeur irresistibly puts you in mind of an Annunciation, with angel (though wingless) and Madonna. In particular Matisse inherited the pastoral mode, replete with allegory. He refers to the poetry of his time -- Baudelaire, Mallarme -- with the same sense of possession and community that Renaissance painters like Lotto, Giorgione or Titian did to Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the figures in Venetian Renaissance pastorals tend...
...Madonna burger, for example, is "a naked burger stripped of its roll...
Connor vamps it up on "Why Don't You Do Right," a swing number whose conventional arrangement is only occasionally interrupted by her signature moans. Consider it the photographic negative of Madonna's Dick Tracy showboating...