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Imagine an orange--a big, juicy mandarin. Now take a knife--a gleaming, sharp serrated one. Slice the orange and check out the cross section. Now you've got the essence of Leverett House in the palm of your hand...
...rape, questioning even "whether consent is a meaningful concept." MacKinnon believes that sex constitutes rape if a woman who consented to sex subsequently regrets her choice, stating that "I call it rape when a women has sex and feels violated." Writing in the New York Times ("The Palm Beach Hanging." December 15, 1991), MacKinnon claimed that all men "are sexually trained to woman-hating aggression...
With visions of palm trees and large paychecks dancing in his head, he sent Roblan a $295 fee, told his landlord he'd be moving soon, sold the family furniture and even parted with his cherished dirt bike. He was so confident of a job that he got an out-of-work electrician friend, Roy Allen, and Roy's father to sign up. As soon as the three had paid their fees, however, the trouble started. They say Roblan began evading their phone calls and later reneged on the promises made by the phone-sales staff. Only...
...firm conviction ((is)) that human beings who are suffering have rights over their bodies." Last Thursday, Kevorkian assisted two more suicides, bringing his total to 15, and Janus was present. This time Kevorkian had a fellow physician on hand: Dr. Susan Grenz, a specialist in internal medicine from Palm Harbor, Florida, and sister of one of the suicides...
...separating from someone you care for and a child being involved." Her combined face-hand images, like Red Head, 1980-81, are particularly strong, perhaps because they so vividly combine a sign for openness and approach (the human countenance) with one for rejection or warding off (the open palm thrusting one's gaze away, or the threatening closed fist). But what underwrites these pictographs, and raises them above the level of emotional complaint, is the messy beauty of the paint surface -- the churned white ground like dirty milk, the obsessed play of nuance within the thick lines...