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...poring over Hesiod's Theogeny or Wittgensteinian tracts. Life unfortunately is not often subtle; its punches are direct and (if you emerge unscathed) illuminating. Earlier this autumn, I was in front of an upscale Manhattan emporium, an indigent family, authentically caked in grime and clothed, literally, in rags, a stark contrast with the bored impolitically furclad matrons streaming out of the store. (Yes, the Dickensian parallel is deliberate...
Bush and Quayle continue to use intimidation tactics to present voters with what they claim is a stark choice between jobs and the environment. Bush has said that a Clinton presidency would mean "no timber workers, only a bunch of owls" and "no farmers, only a great, big, wet hole out there somewhere if you listen...
...stark graphics she presents in "Visions of Choice," a poster series exhibition opening at 5:30 on Friday, October 30, at Lehman Hall in Dudley House, force the viewer to question his or her views on the right of a woman to control her body. Synthesizing her experience as a designer with the country's collective consciousness has allowed Randolph to create work that resonates both visually and intellectually...
...mistreated corpse, clothed from the waist down when discovered, was now stark naked except for remnants of a boot dangling from his right foot, and bore the marks of his crude recovery. He had also been castrated; it turned out that his penis and most of his scrotum were missing, perhaps accidentally broken off during his recovery and taken by a visitor. Flown out by helicopter and transferred to a hearse, the Iceman and his possessions were transported to Innsbruck. There, one final indignity awaited the body. It became the centerpiece of a press conference in the local morgue. While...
...February 1992 report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, in stark contrast with Choi's skewed presentation, lists the Chinese poverty rate as 11.5 percent, the Korean poverty rate as 12.5 percent, with the Japanese poverty rate only at a low 4.2 percent. Severely under-represented Asians such as Laotians experience a 67.2 percent poverty rate. Furthermore, the median income of, for example, a Southeast Asian (Vietnamese) family lies 35 percent below the national average...