Word: paper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point in his deposition it is hard to tell whether Clinton is making one of his paper-thin distinctions or having trouble keeping his stories straight. When he denied having a sexual relationship with Browning, he said she "was mad at me because I'd never been her lover, especially since she thought I was now Gennifer Flowers' lover, and...I told her Gennifer Flowers' story was bogus--it's very hard to prove your innocence in a case like this, but that we'd done it." Just four pages on, however, Clinton admitted his relationship with Flowers hadn...
Pasted to the walls of the Carpenter Center are sheets of black paper, cut into silhouettes that wind around the oddly-shaped space of the lobby. Entering the lobby, one is confronted with the long, cumbersome title, printed in 19th century type on the gray concrete of the front wall. The title's reference to "enlightened audiences" could not be more apt in all its cynicism, class consciousness and cultural criticism than it is here, in the art center of Harvard University...
...black paper cut-outs form a series of approximately life-size silhouettes staged in a dream-like setting that ranges from rural plantations to stylized gardens. The images of the exhibit move like a dream, occasionally implying a broken chronology, or continuing a narrative through head gestures of the silhouettes. Many of Walker's images combine stereotypes of the devilish, animalistic black American with allusions to the folklore of the "happy darky" who entertains whites and enjoys subservience. The result: the exhibit achieves, in Walker's words, a "reinactment [sic] of history in the arena of desire...
Walker's exhibit unabashedly disturbs the viewer with representation of the images and history underlying racism in America. Like the chromatic form of the piece--black paper on white walls--the exhibit deals with race only in black and white. This form alone, in its insistence on turning negative space into positive space, implies the underlying concept of dialectical racial identities. Walker establishes a visual language that bluntly indicates the race of each silhouetted figure. White figures are marked by a few pointed wisps of hair, a straight nose, and thin lips. Silhouettes of black figures are cut with rounded...
...administrator admitted to him that dorm room lights were only supposed to be sufficient to find the switch for another light. If this is also the case at Harvard, a serious ocular injustice is occurring here. We may not need cable TV, and we now have two-ply toilet paper, but we desperately need light...