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...evidenced by such works as his widely-celebrated The Signifying Monkey, Gates--and his fellow critics of Black literature--draw heavily on modern critical theory to interpret Black literature...

Author: By Susan B. Glasser, | Title: Literary Scholars Remake Black Studies | 12/15/1988 | See Source »

...working as a seasonal fire lookout and park ranger in outposts like Arches National Park in southeastern Utah. Out of these cherished stints of lonely brooding came such collections of marvelously cross-grained essays as Desert Solitaire and Abbey's Road, and that wistful novel of eco-banditry The Monkey Wrench Gang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sick-Dog Blues | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

Despite earning $1.2 million last year in salary and stock options, Stempel remains at heart a grease monkey who reads car-buff magazines, counts race-car driver A.J. Foyt among his friends and won a collection of drag-racing trophies in his youth. His one concession to corporate security: letting a chauffeur handle the 40-minute drive to work from his home in a posh suburb north of Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Stempel: Man in The Hot Seat | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

Such is the sour legacy of 1988, an election year that was to substance what cold pizza is to a balanced breakfast. Think of the words and phrases that 18 months of nonstop electioneering have underlined in the political lexicon: Monkey Business, the character issue, attack videos, plagiarism, wimp, handlers, sound bites, flag factories, tank ride, negative spots, the A.C.L.U., Willie Horton and likability. Match them with all the pressing national concerns that were never seriously discussed: from the Japanese economic challenge to the plight of the underclass. As the voters trudge off to the polls with all the enthusiasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why It Was So Sour | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

...incorrectly reported that this was running last week. Performance Space Space Performance (formerly Performance Space Six), the group that produced the Sea Monkey's Sideshow multi-media extravaganza last May at the Carpenter Center, is behind this event, which features simultaneous acts of creativity by musicians, fencers, painters and storyteller Brother Blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OPENING THIS WEEK | 11/10/1988 | See Source »

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