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...slight discrepancies that remain between male and female experiences are jarring. The frequent occurence of male-dominated discussion sections, with two female students in a classroom of a dozen men, hardly builds self-esteem. With women holding only 7 percent of the tenured faculty positions and only one-fourth of the junior slots, finding role models isn't easy...
...instants it can freeze for further study -- were its unacknowledged assets. Given the proper attention, they would draw viewers into departments of feeling where standard pictures would never take them. To the unprepared, and even sometimes to the well prepared, there are Winogrands that indeed look haphazard and slight -- dedicated studies of unyielding scenes. But for every one that mumbles, there are a dozen that fit together a bracing new kind of declaration. His pictures have their own kind of muscle and spine, enough to push out the boundaries of art. And, for that matter, to lift the spirit...
...slight drizzle fell, the crowd chanted, "Diversity is the way! We won't wait another day!" and then listened to speeches by professors, protesters and representatives of several minority student associations at the Law School...
Until the artist's death last year, after gallbladder surgery, the extent of his hoard had largely been a secret. As compulsive consumers go, he was inconspicuous. An old pal, Collector Suzie Frankfurt, once noticed a slight bulge under his shirt at a Studio 54 bash: it was a dazzling emerald necklace. Yet Warhol's opulent town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side was so cluttered with the fruits of his shopping binges that only two or three rooms were habitable. Picassos were stuffed in closets. Jewels were squirreled away in the canopy of his antique four-poster...
...suddenly he was running. "After all the times we talked," he said ruefully, throwing his slight yet muscular arm around my shoulder. Already Eugene McCarthy, with much less to risk, had had the courage to risk it. He had exposed Johnson's soft underbelly, and now Kennedy was motioning to him to stand aside. Kennedy, who had refused to fracture the party, had split the antiwar movement. There was grumbling across the land and throughout the hastily chartered campaign plane...