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...that begins, “My Dear Sir Martian Overload President...” 11. Henry A. Kissinger ’50, just sitting quietly in a rocking chair. 12. Supply of tequila for upcoming “Presidential Thirsty Thursday.” 13. A portrait of former University President Derek C. Bok, aging. 14. Thousands upon thousands of women in science. 15. Misplaced supply of Mass Hall dignity and clout...
...doesn’t exist anymore. Artist Dash Snow’s 2005 installation, “This Was Your Life,” takes the events of Rakowitz’s life as inspiration and tries to recreate the East Village of yesteryear. The piece is an amalgamated portrait of junkie life: a cheap leather couch held up on cinder blocks, a fake plastic tree, snakeskin boots, and a framed news clipping detailing the aforementioned events. The Saatchi Gallery now features this installation (along with other works by Snow) and calls it “a portrait...
...living in. And if that means using Weber or Foucault, that’s fine, that’s helpful.THC: To some extent, this novel is as large as can be, addressing world political issues like Israel and Palestine, but it is also a small, intimate portrait of three young, white, Ivy-educated males. Are you at all worried about the charge of navel-gazing? How does this affect the cultural or political work that your book might perform, if at all?KG: This happens to be the stuff that right now I can write best about and with...
...discern whether “Youth” proposes homage or parody. Gonzales clearly understands the nostalgia associated with such eagerly retrospective arrangements, but in trying to plug listeners into that same nostalgia, he also recalls the vapidity and gross superficiality that followed in its wake. As a portrait of the West’s last years in the Cold War, then, “Saturdays=Youth” succeeds splendidly, just barely hesitating to spoil moments of glowing artificial beauty with its gluttonous flare for the baroque.But make no mistake—it’s the beauty that...
...professor at the University of Massachusetts, Lisak researches the motives and behaviors of rapists to construct a psychological portrait of a rapist that diverges from stereotypes of the “nice guy” date rapist or the “ski mask” man crouching in the bushes...