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Mapplethorpe is most famous for his entanglement with the protracted and unintentionally humorous debate over funding for the National Endowment for the Arts in the late eighties. Always a contrarian, the critic Robert Hughes turned up his nose at Mapplethorpe by virtually ignoring him: "Conservative," he sniffed, "in every sense but the sexual...
Oneness had a moral value for Brancusi, as both the origin and the aim of consciousness. It is marvelously expressed in sculptures like Sleeping Muse [III], 1917-18: the ovoid head inflected only by the ghost of a mouth, the delicate V of a nose and the incisions of hair, one of which follows an existing flaw in the veined marble. Part of the magic of his work is its sensitivity to material. Substance and metaphor fuse...
...Harvard wouldn't be Harvard without constantly chapped lips and red hands. Harvard wouldn't be Harvard if you were able to wear clothes between November and May that showed any part of your body besides your eyes and the tip of your nose. Harvard wouldn't be Harvard without the biting winds that freeze your jeans, eat you alive and deliver you unconscious to your doorstep...
Victoria Case knows that family violence demands immediate action. Last week she was trying to ensure the security of a woman named Sandy and her three children. Over the Thanksgiving holiday, Sandy's husband Bruce beat her up, blackening her eyes and breaking her nose. At Case's urging, Sandy has obtained a restraining order against him. But now, having observed many battered women, Case is worried that Sandy's resolve is flagging. "The kids love their daddy," Sandy insists. "He's really a very good person...
Most laws are a compromise which society decides between two conflicting desires. If you want to swing your arm wildly, you have every right to do so, but this right ends at the tip of my nose. If person A wants to commit violent acts for fun, and person B does not appreciate being beaten or killed, society makes a policy choice (simple in this situation) which values A's right to shoot and stab much lower than B's right not to be shot and stabbed. Sometimes the situation is less clear: Person A wants to listen to loud...