Word: ras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...citation is fake, so that the real thing feels out of place. The city is built on simulation, quotation, weird unconvincing displacements, in which cultural icons are endlessly but never convincingly quoted. Here is the Luxor Hotel, that huge silly pyramid with its plaster Anubises and fiber-glass Amon-Ras, its cavernous interior housing a facsimile of the Manhattan skyline. Here, under construction, is a casino in the form of the Doges Palace in Venice, complete with a small-scale version of the Campanile bearing a replica of the original's gilded angel on its vertex. Here too is Caesars...
...raise the question rhetorically, but unfortunately for me, I actually can relate to the pompous professor. My senior year in high school, I wrote an essay on Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man in which I boldly asserted that one of the novel's characters, Ras the Exhorter, was based on the real-life black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey. I remember feeling the smug self-satisfaction that comes with crafting (what I thought was) an original academic argument. I excerpted the essay on my Harvard application. I wondered--only half in jest--whether it was publishable...
...Ras based on Marcus Garvey?" they asked. So much for my original thesis...
What bothered me more than my destroyed thesis, however, was a larger question: What was my scholarship worth? Sure, I had amply demonstrated that similarities exist between Ras and Garvey, but the causal link had been shattered by the only guy who had a right to do so--the author himself. I was wrong, and my paper was worthless...
...Anatomy Project). But it will be years before this library can be put to practical use. "It took 20 years to make testing for hormone receptors routine in breast-cancer patients," notes UCLA's Slamon. It will take at least a decade to make testing for HER-2/neu, RAS and other genes routine for cancer patients in general...