Word: vu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since March 1, four poor and elderly black women, each living alone, have been raped and murdered. In the housing projects and neighborhoods where the murders have occurred, there is a mingled sense of danger and deja vu. "A lot of people are saying, 'Here we go again,' " says State Senator Arthur Langford, pastor of a church in the area. Fear among elderly black women is acute: some are nailing their doors shut each night; others are sleeping during the day in order to stay vigilant after dark; still others are using their Social Security checks to buy pistols...
...stacks of faces into difficult and mannered formats, given his bonhomie and sense of the social moment, the freshness of his color and the adroitness with which he makes his art-historical references--all this admitted, why does this show produce so unmistakable an aftertaste of satiation and deja vu? Katz's fans like to stress that his paintings are "deceptively simple," as though some mass of knotted thought lurked beneath their surfaces. But in fact, what you see is what you get, and his repertoire of compositional tricks, though effective, is not very wide. The hallmark of the minor...
...Deja vu--that funny feeling you get that what is happening has all happened before...
...Deja vu...
...Duchess of Sanseverina, the real heroine of Stendhal's Charterhouse of Parma, understood all such things when she considered the prospects of her lover and sighed, "J'ai vu tomber tant de choses que j'avais crues eternelles." (I have seen the fall of so many things that I had thought eternal.) The man with the golden helmet understood that too, no matter who painted...