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Contrary to another popular belief, the pre-exam period ritual is not about exhibitionism. The participants were not indulging a secret fantasy where their peers gawk at, photograph or film their bodies. There are easier (read: warmer) ways to expose oneself. For example, certain residents of Leverett House were so enamored of their nudity that they proceeded to run naked through various rooms of McKlintock Hall after Primal Scream was over...
...estrangement in chronicling the very ordinary. Ruscha, in fact, literally takes us into the plane with him in his series "34 Parking Lots in Los Angeles." Shot aerially, their meticulously drawn lines, directional arrows and predictably spaced gas stains are suddenly mesmerizing--and humorous. One stand-out is the photograph of the Dodger Stadium parking lots: emanating radially from the stadium like the leaves of an artichoke, they are at once industrial and organic. Ruscha's painted evocations of Los Angeles' grid-like topography (straight lines, written names) likewise succeed in turning our personal (and local and national) geographies topsy...
Your article on the murder of army Private Barry Winchell [NATION, Dec. 13] included a caption for a photograph of me that was misleading. I was referred to as "Winchell's cross-dressing friend." I was more than just a friend. I was Barry's lover and girlfriend. Also, a cross-dresser is generally thought to be a heterosexual male who wears women's clothes. I am a male-to-female transgendered person, meaning I feel mentally, emotionally and spiritually that I am a woman. CALPERNIA SARAH ADDAMS Nashville, Tenn...