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...welfare and the Department of Social Services. Susan Sheehan, a writer on the staff of the New Yorker, where this work first appeared in a slightly different form, has written a profile of a Puerto Rican welfare mother, describing for 95 pages the daily comings and goings of Carmen Santana and her family...
...despite some valid insights into the realities of a welfare recipient's daily existence, reading A Welfare Mother is an excrutiatingly frustrating experience. The text ambles through external description without dropping any clues to the humanity behind the name Carmen Santana. It is written as a newspaper article, in crisp, clear, objective, unemotional prose, and from start to finish the journalistic facade never cracks...
Sheehan spent nearly two years with Santana and hardly penetrated the pedestrian facts and figures of her life. Her view of welfare through an entirely material lens is tragically blind to the violent conflict and controversy surrounding the welfare system today...
...year-old Winwood's most recent effort is Go, a strange and spacey album that combines elements from electronic music, jazz, classical music, reggae, salsa, and just the slightest touch of rock and roll. Recorded with Japanese avant-garde composer and percussionist Stomu Yamashta and former Santana guitarist Michael Shrieve. Go is an extraordinarily innovative work which demands more than casual listening. Yet the heavy emphasis on electronic music--the sounds of synthesizers and the electronic instrumental effects throughout--make listening a bizarre, somewhat alienating experience...
Sheehan spent nearly two years with Santana, and hardly penetrated the pedestrian facts and figures of her life. Her view of welfare through an entirely maternal lens is tragically blind to the violent conflict and controversy surrounding the welfare system today...