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...eerie feeling of dipping into a version of Proust's Swann's Way written from the point of view of the object of Swann's fixation. Farrell in no way resembles the fictional Odette, but she tries to distance herself from suffocating attention, tries to limit passion to the stage and embrace practicality off it. Balanchine's attentions were consuming. He designed little furs for her and bought her shoes because "I just love to hear you clip-clopping along." After she broke the spell, she danced old roles and new ones, finally watching Mr. B.'s slow decline...
...Size in American sculpture -- a bronze house 9 in. high, for example, or a lilliputian metal chair sitting on the floor. Seen in the huge white-wall and oak-floor gallery spaces of early SoHo, these looked totally out of sync with their surroundings. Yet the contrast between the object and the space around it was part of Shapiro's project. The smallness seemed to gather and focus the room, stretching the distance between your eye and the sculpture, while giving the dumb-looking thing an irksome, gnatlike insistence...
Then Shapiro began to move toward the human figure. This note is struck in the very first object in the Baltimore show, made in 1974, which from across the room (or in reproduction) looks like one of the abstract scatter pieces done by minimalist sculptors in the '70s -- Serra or Barry Le Va -- but is in fact an image of human dismemberment. Look closer, and the bits of wood turn ! out to be an artist's mannequin that Shapiro broke up in a fit of anger -- "I pulled it apart and just threw it around the room," he says...
...object of gene therapy, simply put, is to provide the body with healthy replacement genes that can fulfill the intended role of defective ones. "Gene therapy is actually a sophisticated drug-delivery system," Anderson explains. "Anything given now by injection -- growth factor, factor VIII, insulin -- you can just engineer the patient's own cells to pump them out. The advantage is that it's a one-time treatment...
Many would object to me using as lofty and academic a term as classism to describe the slights I have received in my life. They would argue that greater tragedies have befallen humankind than some whiny prep school brat getting her feelings hurt, and they would most certainly be right. The upper class is definitely not a persecuted minority, and we do live in a society structured by class--a structure that admittedly has benefitted me. But discrimination on a personal or social level, be it against the political majority or minority, makes people flat agents for their particular group...