Word: mix
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blissful absence of bigotry -- it has always had its full share of violent racism -- but because an organized and resourceful black community constantly pushed a white leadership that was at least pragmatic. Now it is said to be a land of opportunity for black managers -- who, during the day, mix easily with whites. It also has a huge black underclass reflected in a poverty rate that is the second highest of any American core city. When I lived in Atlanta, at the height of the struggle, the interests of poor black people and well-off black people seemed identical...
...Cucchi, Francesco Clemente and Sandro Chia -- together with Mimmo Paladino, 40, who has turned the main gallery into a continuous "environment" of stone figures, bronze emblems and copper sheet. Paladino's masks, wheels, cauldrons, skulls and traceries of rose stems, cast in bronze, have a wild unsettled air, a mix of couture sophistication and peasant witchcraft, that is quite striking; one only wishes that when he carves a figure in stone, it came out looking more like sculpture and less like a shop-window dummy. Also not to be missed is a hypnotic and mysterious installation by the Roman artist...
...experience has already proved educational. "I'm seeing how the right mix of text and pictures can have maximum impact on the printed page," observes Strong. For Masters, who is an executive editor of the Harvard Crimson, working in the journalism big leagues has practical advantages. Says she: "It's great to identify yourself as a reporter and have your phone calls put through, which is something that doesn't always happen at a college newspaper." Not even at Harvard...
...Errand" is a throwback to the 19th century, but "Errand" is an experiment, a post-modern experiment, on the border between fiction and non-fiction. Capote's In Cold Blood and, more recently, Don DeLillo's Libra are other examples of the post-modern urge to cross genres and mix fact with fiction. Seen in this light, "Errand" is not a return of older influences, it is a departure from the rigid prohibitions that minimalism can impose...
Some hobbyists enjoy the strange mix of oddly dignified and unsavory characters found in a flip-side world. Others like the colorful road names and don't-look-back life-style. Hopkins is "Santa Fe Bo." Tudor Williams is "Wanderin' Wills." Real hoboes they know include a man named "Wild, Wild Wes," who rides with a crow perched on his shoulder, and "Pepsodent Pete," who quit dentistry for the rails. Then there are those who may be starting the life. Thad ("Thunder") Thorton, 22, sits by the Colorado River and talks of being a late child of parents who died...