Word: naomi
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...notion of trash TV. In Taxi Biennale - a garishly airbrushed comic strip presenting the adventures of "Curatorman, the young CEO of the global player ?uratorman Inc." - Thailand's Navin Rawanchaikul offers a labored reworking of another hoary old chestnut: the relationship between art and commerce. American Naomi Fisher photographs herself doggy-style with plant stems transpiercing her underwear, while Japanese artist Jun'ya Yamaide transforms a white wall into an oversized coloring book complete with crayons...
...never had a population like this before," says Naomi Neufeld, a pediatric endocrinologist and director of KidShape, a nonprofit weight-loss program in Los Angeles. "Children who are overweight are 20% to 30% heavier now than they were even 10 years ago. We can't even imagine the medical costs we will be seeing in the future. It feels like Armageddon...
...despite the escalation, there are also small but significant and growing signs of new thinking emerging in the region. The Jerusalem Post carried a commentary by leftwing parliamentarian Naomi Chazan on a recent Israeli-Palestinian sit-down in South Africa, in which both sides apprised themselves of the lessons of that country's near-miraculous negotiated peaceful transition away from minority rule. And in Egypt's official Al Ahram, commentator Hani Shukrallah offers a withering critique of an intifada hijacked by suicide bombers. "The Biblical Samson strikes a ridiculous, rather than heroic, figure," he writes. "Not to mention that...
...Before [the directors] were doing the whole thing blind, and this gives them more information about the decisions they are making,” said Naomi R. Krakow ’03, the campus liaison for the HRDC board...
...Naomi Schor, a leading scholar who brought feminist and psychoanalytic criticism to the study of French literature, died suddenly from a brain hemorrhage last Sunday...