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...slender, well-dressed woman, Benhabib is neither pretentious nor distant. The laity may not easily grasp her work, but her effort to explain the intricacies of research into the thoughts of the great theorists of moral and political philosophy is fascinating...
...watched at the Guggenheim, but the main body of the show is sculpture: mechanized objects that pump liquids around, or reduce lumps of carbon to black dust with tiny pecking hammers, or swivel suspended binoculars in an anxious parody of disembodied inspection, or flap small wings. Some devices, slender granddaughters of Jean Tinguely's painting machines of the '50s, splatter paint around on the walls or (with more fetishistic suggestion) on women's shoes. No doubt to spare the clothes of the museum audience, these stay switched off, leaving dried Abstract Expressionist trickles as mementos. Peacock Machine, 1982, was originally...
...person Anna Deavere Smith is a tall, slender, gorgeous black woman with an aristocrat's features, a dancer's grace and a Stanford drama professor's vocabulary. Onstage she is a disabled old Korean man, a white male Hollywood talent agent, a Panamanian immigrant mother, a teenage black gang member, a macho Mexican sculptor and 21 other people whose lives were forever changed by the 1992 Los Angeles riots. With a minimum of costumes and props she can make herself tall, short, pudgy, burly. If the person she is enacting speaks Spanish or Korean, so does she. This kind...
...appear on the first anniversary of the Los Angeles riots, Race Matters is the first of West's eight books (including Breaking Bread, Insurgent Black Intellectual Life, co-authored by the black feminist writer bell hooks) intended for a general audience. Though far from his most profound writing, the slender collection of essays is laden with provocative observations on a broad range of racially loaded topics that have delighted and irritated people on both sides of the color line. West flays liberals and conservatives for trying to force blacks "to do all the 'cultural' and 'moral' work necessary for healthy...
...culture is sending a dangerous message to many women and some men that they must conform to one idealized body type," Swan said. "The slender supermodel image is just not realistic for most women...