Word: virginal
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sarah Jones hears voices. A homeless black woman. A Russian mother, married to a black man, talking about her daughter's cornrows. A homophobic Italian cop. A young girl in the projects who's "the only virgin left in her building." Jones, 25, the daughter of a black father and a mother of European and Caribbean descent, uses her one-woman show, Surface Transit, to get the voices out of her head and into the world. "We all know people like this," she says. "Some of us are people like this...
...virtual spectacle that has grown to involve New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the Whitney Museum and the artist himself. Late last year, Giuliani cut the Brooklyn Museum's funding because it decided to show, as part of an exhibit called Sensation, Chris Ofili's controversial painting of the Virgin Mary smeared with elephant dung and speckled with pornography. "Sanitation" champions artistic expression in the face of political interference, but it is no more and indeed far less than the sum of its parts-twelve Rubbermaid garbage cans surround a framed version of the First Amendment, while an altered version...
...school run by one of the most liked and dedicated principals in the country can't overcome the basic problem with public education: it takes place in a government institution. Imagine spending 13 years at a DMV studying for the written test. Now imagine doing it as a virgin. No principal can make that...
...spared from crying the rest of his life." Cuban TV lost no chance to broadcast images of "the hysterical behavior of Marisleysis... and the desecration of the American flag by the Miami Mafia." Echoing Little Havana's piety, Cuban citizens like Virginia Sotolongo, 42, said, "The Virgin of Charity has done this miracle. I always believed that the child would be with his father...