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...plucky from the palm of my lace glove. (Maybe she explained the one for Quinn better—“pheasants are mindful, just like you”—because he was younger). But Mama up and died before I could ask what she meant and then Quinn followed her out before I could engage his pheasanty powers of perception and then Daddy went and Humpty Dumptied this moxious thing to its doom. I shot my necklace at the dresser as I stomped over the fowl yellow candies.Daddy waited more than a minute. I knew he would...
...this exhibit and how the Carpenter Center became its home.William Pope.L: I was invited to do a commission here as part of a series of exhibits at the Carpenter Center. I had three other proposals before this one....my first proposal dealt with how the Carpenter Center is meant to interface with students. I thought, could I do a piece that would circle around all those interests the fact that the student population is very important to this community, as is archive life?I wanted to collect saliva from students of color and urine samples from the white students...
...unifying thread through the festival.“I like the positive view of the future,” says Jim Peterson, a 10-year attendee of the event. “Science fiction shows us new ideas.” “It’s meant to be escapist,” says Jen Simon of Philadelphia. “It’s less mundane than normal life.” Simon is on her second trip to the festival; she was introduced to it by her fiancé, Steve Lento, who’s been...
...portraits that comprise the majority of the exhibition depict individuals who have contributed specifically to the Boston community, from painters to University professors to members of the medical community. These people are meant to represent a select cross-section of society. Many of the portraits are displayed one next to the other, some even tangent at their sides. With African American educator next to Asian American pharmacist next to Caucasian judge, the juxtaposition of the portraits strives too obviously to emphasize the diversity and unity of the Boston population. Vanderwarker’s portrayal of these individuals is forced rather...
...virtue of their near-stranglehold on nationwide TV broadcasting, the three main television networks - NBC, ABC and CBS - could misuse their broadcast licenses to set a biased public agenda. The Fairness Doctrine, which mandated that broadcast networks devote time to contrasting views on issues of public importance, was meant to level the playing field. Congress backed the policy in 1954, and by the 1970s the FCC called the doctrine the "single most important requirement of operation in the public interest - the sine qua non for grant of a renewal of license." (See 25 people to blame for the financial crisis...