Word: nauman
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...wrong. It is still a show with marked ideological prejudices. Clearly, the Whitney curators resist realist painting, and their promotion of media-based conceptual imagery over more directly pictorial forms of intelligence verges on intellectual snobbery (for example, Richard Prince's boringly generic reflections on photo reproduction, or Bruce Nauman's neon pieces, or Barbara Kruger's snootily virtuous samplers bearing such commonplaces as I SHOP THEREFORE I AM). But no one could accuse it of the air-headedness that marked its immediate predecessor. This is a tighter, more conservative Biennial, attentive to the internal rhymes of current...
That was the result of a showdown last week between two judges who have been waning since November over a desegregation plan for Rapides Parish: Federal Judge Nauman Scott, who devised it, and State Judge Richard Lee, who helped the girls fight a transfer from Buckeye High to racially mixed Jones Street School. In defiance of the integration order, Lee sent state troopers to escort the students to Buckeye and even did the job himself for four days. In a two-hour session in his courtroom, Scott stressed that he would not retreat on the desegregation plan; he said...
...conflict began last August with a busing order by Federal District Judge Nauman Scott in Alexandria, La. Scott redrew local districts to put 107 seventh-and eighth-graders from the all-white Buckeye High School-including Carbo, McNeal and LaBorde-into the area served by the racially mixed Jones Street School in Alexandria, 15 to 20 miles away. Only 22 of the students complied. McNeal and LaBorde joined the majority who enrolled in private schools. A bogus address enabled Carbo to stay at Buckeye...