Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Also present was the Elephant Walk restaurant, which has locations in Cambridge and Boston. The restaurant served a traditional plate of mussels and french fries, along with fresh fruit tarts...
Community Servings, which delivers meals to area AIDS patients, was also present at the festival. Raising money to buy food for AIDS patients, the group sold $5 tickets to a raffle for free airfare to Paris...
...Also present was the Elephant Walk restaurant, which has locations in Cambridge and Boston. The restaurant served a traditional plate of mussels and french fries, along with fresh fruit tarts...
...Golden Lion, the Biennale's version of an Oscar. Another young American, in another part of the exposition, did. Doug Aitken's Electric Earth, a slick, multiscreen video, earned him one of the three awards for best international artists. The video, about living "in the absolute present," as Aitken, 31, says, features the throbbing music and quick cuts more in tune with the MTV generation. But at least one visitor appreciated the languorous charms of Hamilton's show. There, in a mound of pink powder, an admirer had scrawled a single word: bellissimo...
What could explain this disconnect? Certainly not the real experiences of the present-day Delta, where racial integration was far more advanced than the plantations would suggest. As I drove from Memphis, Tenn., to Vicksburg and New Orleans, La., small details suggested that perhaps this was the New South after all--like the fact that all three cities have black mayors. Or the businesses where whites worked alongside blacks. Or the brand-new roads and schools serving mostly black small towns. The South being marketed for the tourists was far more reactionary than the real South just out the door...