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...live-vividly-in-the-moment approach is a handy tool that has 1,001 uses around the house. Thus: a husband comes home at five in the morning with the scent of another woman lingering about his person. "Where were you?" the wife demands. "Darling," the husband replies, "I am vividly in the present tense. I dare you to join me there!" (Good luck in trying that...
...from his distended lower lip. Behind him, a kerchief-capped girl reaches to turn the enormous screw-key sprouting from his back like that of a wind up doll. Recalling the tradition of black minstrelsy, the key also suggests a brutally-planed pair of scissors--a silhouette cutter's tool craftily inscribed within the silhouette. This image alone might be taken as an icon for the controversy surrounding Walker's work, as viewers question whether her scissors puncture negative racial stereotypes or simply stab blacks in the back...
...favor of four more years with Nixon. That set the stage for the apogee of public disillusionment, Watergate, and the Reagan Revolution, which blamed the '60s for the social pathologies afflicting America. Lasting dominion over the decade belonged to Madison Avenue, which turned the counterculture into the marketing tool it is today. Jerry Garcia is dead. Long live Cherry Garcia...
...American education: "Anyone who tells you computers are more effective than anything else is either dumb or lying." Better technology doesn't necessarily make kids better students; good teachers and smart curriculums do. "Laptops are like the new electronic tablet notebook--they have good potential as a writing tool and a place to store information," says Allen Glenn, dean of the University of Washington's education school. "But as far as how you really integrate laptops into actual lessons, in a way that will help students understand their problems, that's still up for grabs...
CAPITALIST TOOL...