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...punch of Walker's exhibit is that it refuses to render the challenge of race into a simply rhetorical question. As cynical as the show is, it demands a solution from its audience. Like psycho-analysis, Walker's work reminds the viewer of things that she does not like to know that she knows. It confronts the audience with the grotesque, debasing racial stereotypes that are embedded in our collective psyche, with the hope that bringing them to consciousness will be the first step to their eradication...
...that it breaks down in practice. They argue that exposure to sexual objectification distorts men's perception of all women. They are wrong. Normal, sane men are not confused by their experiences with poster girls, seedy restaurants or gentlemen's magazines. Their enjoyment of such diversions does not render them incapable of healthy, respectful relationships with the opposite sex. Nor do the pathological among us receive their decisive nudge into misogyny from such sources...
This is the year to pity poor music lovers. Just when they thought they had assembled the best audio system budgets could buy, along comes a development that may render their expensive turntables and library of LPs as out of date as Edison's first talking machine. This month Sony and Magnavox are introducing a limited number of digital record players in audio and department stores across the U.S. The machines, which retail for $800 to $1,000, use a laser beam instead of a conventional tone arm and stylus to play compact discs, or CDs, that will sell...
...simply cannot disengage from the outside world selectively; this is an all-too-easy-to-believe ivory tower delusion. Just as the food in the dining hall is not really free, and "dining services flexibility" means that more employees go home later, our position as college students does not render us innocuous or ineffectual in the non-college world. Apathy cannot be justified on the basis of academic demands or career aspirations...
...advantage Ellison stressed was that the NC will render conventional operating systems irrelevant. Given the current Microsoft monopoly, Ellison said he thinks this development will be positive for consumers...