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...pistons, wheels and shafts. They plundered popular-?science books for imagery. They were exhibitionists in the pathological sense, having themselves photographed in nutty get-ups: Duchamp with his hair shampoo-lathered into devil-horn shapes or shaved in the form of a star, or dressed up as a woman; Picabia with his bare chest puffed out, posing as a classical god; and Ray in a photographic self-portrait with half a beard...
They were geniuses of not caring. When Duchamp died in 1968 it was discovered that he'd been secretly working for two decades on a complicated installation with sparkling light, an invisible motor and a nude woman made of plaster casts of body parts covered in calfskin. (She was modeled on the wife of a Brazilian diplomat in New York, with whom he'd had a long, clandestine love affair.) But for years, Duchamp, who lived in a modest, $40-a-month apartment in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, told his friends he'd given art up for chess and philosophical...
...Amanda M. Nagy ’11 headed to the Greenhouse Café for a quick lunch one day last January, she certainly did not expect to be read passages from the Bible over her California rolls. But when approached by two well-dressed strangers, a man and a woman who looked like they could be undergraduates, that is exactly what happened. The pair told Nagy that they were conducting a survey for a class, and although she was in a rush, she consented to help them out. The dogmatic duo asked her if she was familiar with the concept...
...leading slightly in the delegate count, it is by no means certain that he will take the party’s nomination. If Hillary Clinton were to win, the Democratic Party would be faced with a large number of obsessive Obama supporters not at all interested in supporting the woman who shot down their beloved champion. This scenario would surely mean victory for John McCain...
...world away, Barack Obama is campaigning to change American politics. But in the tiny farmstead where his father used to herd goats, his Kenyan relatives are praying for anything but more political upheaval. "We are spending sleepless nights praying that peace will prevail," says the 86-year-old woman whom the presidential contender calls Granny Sarah...