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...found-object assemblages by the Cherokee artist Jimmie Durham -- parodic weapons made out of rusty gun parts, salvaged wood, plastic pipe -- deal with race and cultural resistance, but do so by imaginative, not merely rhetorical, means. Even Janine Antoni's sculptures -- a big cube of chocolate gnawed by the artist and a fairly repulsive mound of lard chewed up by her, flanked by a vitrine or mock reliquary displaying chocolate cases and lipsticks made from the residue of both (link between bulimia and beauty cult, get it?) -- have a sort of Monty Pythonish looniness that makes them almost endearing...
AFTER ZOE BAIRD AND KIMBA WOOD, NEITHER THE Clinton Administration nor its critics were in the mood for another imbroglio. So Dade County (Miami) prosecutor Janet Reno faced a Senate Judiciary Committee eager to accept her as the first woman Attorney General. She made the most of her opportunity. Reno opened with a folksy but appealing tribute to her parents and their stern self-reliance. Beyond declaring support for strong gun-control laws, she had little specific to say about policy. She stressed the need for social programs to keep children from turning to crime but also affirmed the necessity...
...ensure against more fumbles, NASA has subjected the Hubble rescue plan to an unprecedented eight mission-review panels, some internal and some outside the agency. "This time, we're doing sanity checks and double sanity checks," says NASA's John Wood, chief of Hubble's optics...
...working with Alex, exploring the degree to which the birds understand what they are saying. Pepperberg picks up an object from a crowded tray and inquires, "What toy?" Alex promptly answers, "Block." He then responds to questions about the plaything, describing its color, shape, what it is made of ("wood") and whether it is bigger or smaller than other objects on the tray...
Dunster's facilities include seven squash courts, a basketball court, a weight room, a pottery studio, a wood-working shop and practice rooms for the house's several rock bands and for "normal classical music people," says DeMay, who plays in the band...