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...appreciation for the look and feel of things. From the early drawings she did with acrylic and correction fluid on Chartwell paper, showing her preoccupation with lines and textures, to the series of doors that she cast out of plaster from real doors, she seems to appreciate the underappreciated object. The most compelling piece, Cabinet XI, along with Whiteread’s paper collages, clarifies the conceptual basis for “Place (Village).” Cabinet XI is a metal cabinet, made of the same material as a gray file cabinet but resembling a medicine cabinet. It contains...
...holding it near a light for 30 seconds, and then kick back and "look up" at the floating, glowing disc shapes (you decide, cosmic snowmen or early Atari video game?). The design is based on meditation practices and scientific research that suggests that looking up and focusing on an object lowers brain-wave frequencies. It did work, as long as I kept looking at the glowing blue saucers, though my obsessive worrying returned whenever I closed my eyes. But after some ebb and flow, I eventually drifted off. That said, even if you don't "turn on" the snuggly foam...
...that was egregious. It rankled a bit that she should have told off Steve, and in effect dismissed him when he had just given this really great talk and the [National Book Foundation] had just given him a really serious honor. It was small-minded of Shirley Hazzard to object to his content...
...either be for the rights of the fetus or for the rights of the woman. In a clever reversal, the self-termed “pro-life feminist” movement, spearheaded by the organization Feminists for Life (FFL) is attempting to have it both ways. They object to abortion on the grounds that it harms women. Yet, this position, joined to the term “feminist,” serves merely to conceal a deeply conservative and misogynistic agenda, motivated by ideology rather than a concern for women’s welfare...
...whom) the novel will end, there is still a certain amount of pleasure in seeing Pat discover this for himself. Nevertheless, Pat’s clumsy language, simplistic concept of the world, and frequent inability to understand others make him an odd—and ultimately unsatisfying—object for the reader’s sympathy. —Staff writer Rachel A. Burns can be reached at rburns@fas.harvard.edu...