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...Freshman Whitney Henderson will make a splash in the 200-yard butterfly, the individual medleys, and the freestyle events. A versatile competitor, Henderson will fill in wherever Coach Stephanie Morawski ’92 finds a hole in the line-up. Henderson already leads the league with a 2:03.57 in the 200-yard butterfly, a time from Harvard’s intrasquad competition...
...Whitney is the self-proclaimed “Vassar girl,” played sharply and with an effectively haughty self-awareness by Alexandra M. Ohanian ’05. Sissy (Elizabeth Newhall ’02) is her antithesis, a homely and naive girl who contrasts with Whitney’s confidence and projected image of success...
...those women encounter obstacles that diminish their feelings of self-worth. Martha feels unqualified as a nurse and unable to justify the precarious nature of her work; MaryJo is objectified by the soldiers; Steele feels discriminated against both as a black and as a woman; Whitney fails in her relationships with soldiers; LeAnn engages in a romantic affair, the angry demise of which precipitates her lover’s death; and Sissy is quite simply overwhelmed by her own lack of resolve. All of their initial perceptions are challenged and ultimately overturned, and as they leave Vietnam in a helicopter...
...sixties spelled an end, too, for the art of Yoko Ono. After a retrospective in 1971 at the Whitney, Ono focused on music and video composition until a brief return to the art world in 1988 with some bronze casts of earlier works. Scattered pieces in the 90s are of interest (though few are included at MIT), but lack the visionary drama of her first events and performances. Instead, Ono’s idealistic faith in shared values and experiences has been channeled into new works that, lacking her former intellectual rigor, are more consolatory than conceptual...
...Post-Black" art, or work by a generation whose approach to questions of racial identity has been liberated and informed by America's growing multicultural fabric. After majoring in art history and African-American studies at Smith College, Golden spent nearly a decade as an associate curator at the Whitney Museum, where she first made a name for herself with the provocative 1994 exhibit "Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art," which attempted to subvert old stereotypes about black men and black sexuality by placing them in a fresh context...