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...other weapons by transforming them into furniture. In Le Monde Vomissant (The Vomiting World), Democratic Republic of Congo painter Ch?ri Samba depicts a starving globe throwing up the American continents, some guns and a tank. Romuald Hazoum? from Benin stacks dozens of decorated plastic cans into a modern totem pole, while Cameroon-born Samuel Fosso's self-portraits depict him as a tribal chief, an elegant woman and a pirate. Elsewhere as part of "Africa 05," the British Museum and other venues will present the continent's history, identity and culture through artifacts, dance, literature, drama, fashion, cinema and lots...
Romuald Hazoumé from Benin stacks dozens of decorated plastic cans into a modern totem pole, while Cameroon-born Samuel Fosso's self-portraits depict him as a tribal chief, an elegant woman and a pirate. Elsewhere as part of "Africa 05," the British Museum and other venues will present the continent's history, identity and culture through artifacts, dance, literature, drama, fashion, cinema and lots more. Africa's year, indeed. tel: (44-20) 7960 5226; www.hayward.org.uk; www.africa05.co.uk
...looming humiliation of Annenberg; the Darwinian process of forming blocking groups; the problem sets and papers; the slow and purposeful slides up the totem pole. What do you get after three years of toil? One night at Iruña a group of fifteen—err, make that 11—seniors joined together as they do every year at FM’s behest, and tried to answer that question...
Campbell: I'm the low man on the totem pole here. I've only been here 18 years. I never was a big-Eastern-city guy. They're too big and too fast. I like that ranch life out there where I live. But this is where the job is. Every time I see this Capitol, I get the same feeling I've had for 18 years. Sometimes in the wintertime, when the snow is on the ground here and you see this building in the moonlight, it's just hard to explain the feeling that...
...problem becomes more damaging when teachers interpret such behavior as indifference and lower their expectations for what the students can achieve. Without interest and support from teachers--which matter more to minorities, Ferguson found--floundering black students eventually become resigned to their low position on the academic totem pole, fail to develop essential skills and slip even further behind...