Word: touche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ROLLING STONE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS (Simon & Schuster; $50). Nixon's helicopter lifting off after his final farewell, John curling up naked against Yoko, Brando posing in a wheatfield in bonnet and dress. If these photos touch a nostalgic nerve, you'll also love the 147 others, culled from 22 years of Rolling Stone, where celebrity photojournalism and portraiture mix with fascinating results...
...heated, at times ugly, controversy that swirled around the design and its designer seemed to evaporate, in an instant, once the nation could witness for itself the overwhelming effect those two walls of polished black granite have on all who visit them, place flags and flowers beside them and touch the more than 58,000 names inscribed on them...
...just don't think we give enough credit to our public. The Viet Nam memorial was first seen as some sort of elitist statement. It's like you see it before you really see it. But if you don't have preconceived notions, the presence of the object will touch you in some way, and you'll be in dialogue with it. I mean, what do you do with people like Tom Wolfe? His fear of modern art is sad. He must have been flogged with a Brancusi somewhere along...
...after King, suggesting the struggle didn't begin with the Brown decision or end with King's death). Anyone, she said -- be it someone who had lived through the events or a child who had not -- could move around the piece, putting his hand through the water to touch the words or simply seeing his reflection in the water itself. And by doing so, the person could either remember, or learn for the first time, the history recorded there...
...administration has disregarded students demands and opinions on a number of crucial issues," said ARAC spokesperson Gwen A. Robinson '92. "Things like ROTC, minority and women faculty hiring and randomization [of the housing lottery] show that they are just not in touch with the students...