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...subtle friction of the yellow fingers and pink biomorphic shapes around the central void of Keyhole, 1982, has something of the quality of '40s de Kooning, sexy and calligraphic at the same time: it evokes the felt presence of the body as an obsessive subject, but obliquely. And there is a curious tension between the enormous size of Murray's canvases and the often domestic and maternal emblems that become their subject matter -- tables and chairs, cups and spoons, an arm, a breast. Murray is not a feminist artist in any ideological sense, but her work, like Louise Bourgeois...
...orators of the group, seemed to believe that flights of rhetoric would be unseemly at such a high-tone forum. Two of the technocratic moderates in the race, Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt and Tennessee Senator Albert Gore Jr., were largely content to enhance their images of quiet competence. That void left Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, Illinois Senator Paul Simon and former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt in charge of providing charisma, a task akin to asking Comedian Jay Leno to dance Swan Lake...
Alnilam is, as its dust jacket proclaims, a "novel by the author of Deliverance," the 1970 best seller that launched Dickey out of poetry circles and into the celebrity void. He was good, fast-drying copy. Big and burly as a stereotypical Southern sheriff (a role he played in the movie of Deliverance), he strummed a guitar, partied hard and shot at deer with a bow and arrow. His collection of poems, Buckdancer's Choice, won a 1966 National Book Award, but he was also a member of the warrior class, having flown Black Widow night fighters against the Japanese...
Proponents of integrating ethics into the educational system say that an entire generation--the product of post-Vietnam disillusionment--has been educated in an ethical void. They argue that it is through education that new standards will be transmitted. But they add that there is a fine line between concern for ethics in the educational system and a bias toward outmoded ethical systems, which represents a return to the days of religion and the pledge of allegiance...
...until the middle of this century that a member of the 337-year-old Harvard Corporation was drawn from the great geographical void that lays beyond Boston and New York. The member, William L. Marbury, a resident of Baltimore, "was one the great heroes" of the Corporation, recalls former President Nathan M. Pusey '28. In order to attend the twice-monthly Corporation meetings, Marbury "would ride the sleeper from Baltimore every Sunday night and ride back Monday night...