Word: subject
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...molded hand cleft by a knife, a mirror, and wood. The work speaks directly and without distraction--a quality to be prized in capturing the unruly nature of questions of identity. Most importantly, the straightforward nature of the work suggests a mind that has cogitated carefully enough on the subject to realize its basic nature while not losing its personal connection to himself...
First shown in fuller form at the Asia Society in New York City, even this pared-down version of the exhibit illuminates the ever-relevant subject of split national identities. To the exacting eye, however, the show comments more tellingly on the individual, human reaction to adversity in general, merely placed against the sometimes straight-forward backdrop of nationalities...
Engel's production works best as a record of how people reconstruct their pasts; the subject itself, which relates a lot of all-too-familiar hardship, has lost its impact. Spoon River is occasionally sad, seldom funny, but not meant to be either. Nor is it meant to be tragic. Rather the mood is elegiac in that it tries to describe the need for people to tell their stories as they would like them to be remembered. History, according to Spoon River, is constructed piecemeal and painstakingly from scraps assembled and melded together...
Lewis' committee had heard complaints for months and had been presented with detailed memos on the subject, but when interviewed by The Crimson for a piece on HASCS, Lewis initially denied knowing anything about complaints or problems in HASCS...
Landes says this growth is both unaccounted for and unacceptable. He says the central administration has an obligation to provide a detailed annual report, as well as to subject its budget to observation and control...