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...symbol of the unstable elements that go into racial and national identities, the cloth was perfect--and it was also gorgeous. Shonibare set to work using it for his signature mannequins. Dummies in more ways than one, his headless figures are oblique meditations on the complexities of cultural identity, coming at the question from the indirect angles provided by wit, ambiguity and beauty. In his ensemble piece Scramble for Africa, the 14 life-size figures arranged around a table represent the colonial powers that carved up Africa at the Berlin Conference of 1884-85, where they helped themselves to what...
...barbecue, the real thing is cooked over indirect heat - usually a wood fire - for a really long time (sometimes for as many as 18 hours). The resulting flavor is a combination of smoke, meat juices, fat and whatever spices or rub have been added. (See pictures of the perfect steak...
Jackson, Joe • death of son of provides perfect opportunity for plugging new record company established...
...states, the biggest concern is not the type of stimulus spending but the amount of it. "Of course it's not creating enough jobs," Senator Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, says of the stimulus. "We're not going to have enough [jobs] because we lost so many." (See 10 perfect jobs for the recession -- and after...
...when we turned parenting into a profession with its own implicit peer-review boards and competitive frenzy. Rather than uniting to promote a culture that would make parenting easier for everyone, we have wasted a huge amount of energy and airspace on fighting among ourselves over what constitutes the perfect balance between head and heart and work and home. "I avoid old friends on Facebook," reads the post on Truemomconfessions.com "because when I compare my life to theirs, I am so ashamed of where...