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Mags Harries casts bronze gloves arranged in a "narrative sequence" throughout Porter Square station. James Tyler's work is the ultimate object-installation: he sculpts life-sized human figures to be arraned in the park at Davis Square. I worry about these last two schemes. Dismembered hands and frozen bodies could have strange psychological affects on the less sober among...
...projects removed from the public, they are isolated from each other. It's a little hard to tell from models how things will look, but it's clear enough that each artist received a section to fill individually. Harvard ends up with stained glass, Hadzi's found objects, and (at Brattle) a twenty-foot brick pylon. Porter Square gets the gloves, the boulders, a mobile, and a huge granite ripple. Art remains object, isolated appendages tacked onto architecture...
...feminists also object to the unequal treatment women receive in the military. Women are now barred from duties that would require them actually to shoot, but they can be sent into situations in which they could be shot at. For example, women can serve as crew members of supply helicopters, which could easily come under fire on the battlefield. The Administration has asked Congress to remove all statutory restrictions on assigning women and leave it up to the Pentagon. Out of chauvinism or chivalry, however, most Congressmen apparently oppose any possibility of women engaging in combat...
...object would not be to safeguard Pakistan against an all-out Soviet attack. As Defense Secretary Harold Brown put it last week, that is "not something the Pakistanis themselves would be able to cope with no matter how much equipment they have...
Apparently the Texas textbook critics, Norma and Mel Gabler, and their followers [Dec. 31] believe that by censoring certain words out of dictionaries, the things the words represent will cease to exist. It's a shame that they don't object to the words bigotry, starvation and war. Samuel S. Roseman Newton...