Word: objections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would object because it would be seen as though the college was condoning the behavior," said Jayne S. Joo '00. "It would exclude under-classmen...
...thought I had Davie choked all the way dead," he says, amazed to see a man he had just spent 10 minutes strangling rise up and wander down the street. "Usually when a man's eyes roll back like that, he's thoroughly kilt.'" It may be quibbling to object that Zeke does not sound very Cherokee in this passage. No matter; if Noel Coward could have written such scenes, he might have made something of himself...
...Face and Figure" artists Andy Warhol and Gilbert and George turn their attention to Ritts's favorite subject--celebrity--they do so with a far more ironic and skeptical eye. Gilbert and George are a pair of artists who have long explored the relationship between celebrity and the art object, most notably in their "Singing Sculpture," in which they painted their faces, stood on a pedestal in a gallery and sang popular British songs. In "Staring World," their contribution to "Face and Figure," the pair presents us with an enormous collage of mass market postcards. The giant rectangle is filled...
What wires a child's brain, say neuroscientists--or rewires it after physical trauma--is repeated experience. Each time a baby tries to touch a tantalizing object or gazes intently at a face or listens to a lullaby, tiny bursts of electricity shoot through the brain, knitting neurons into circuits as well defined as those etched onto silicon chips. The results are those behavioral mileposts that never cease to delight and awe parents. Around the age of two months, for example, the motor-control centers of the brain develop to the point that infants can suddenly reach out and grab...
...opening for someone to call Orthodox Jews like me "fundamentalists" because we take the Torah--Biblical and Rabbinic law--so seriously and without emendation. Perhaps Rita Lin needs to be reminded that these laws--which we obey seriously and without emendation--include loving ones neighbor, returning a lost object and giving charity to the poor. I remember what the rabbis used to tell me in the Orthodox yeshiva (school for higher Jewish education) in Israel that I attended for a year. One rabbi there explained to me once how it was wrong to borrow someone's pen and paper without...