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African and Oceanic Sculpture: Treasures from a Private Collection. Through July 3. The objects are mostly wood and terracotta, ranging from a miniature wooden mask from Zaire to a monumental yoruba veranda post from Nigeria...
...visual arts, cultural outsiders often see what insiders miss. Japanese-born painter Masami Teraoka combines elements of European art and Japanese ukiyo-e wood-block imagery. From his unique perspective, he creates gothic halos around the heads of AIDS patients and condoms in the bedrooms of samurai. In his Harlem neighborhood, Jamaican-American artist Nari Wood collects discarded baby carriages and ties them together with fire hoses, making monuments to loss...
...more concrete effort to nudge the GATT round along, APEC members of GATT agreed to reduce or eliminate tariffs on a wide range of products, including electronics, nonferrous metals, paper, wood, oilseeds and scientific equipment -- and to make those cuts available to all GATT members. Trade in these goods by APEC members of GATT amounts to some $250 billion a year...
...they did, as legislators filed forward to present small blocks of wood to the Diet clerk -- white for yes and green for no. When the tallies were added up, Hosokawa had won by a comfortable majority of 270 to 226, 10 more than the seven-party government's total strength. As Hosokawa watched with satisfaction, 13 Liberal Democratic legislators broke party ranks to vote with his program, and an additional seven braved the stern eye of party leader Yohei Kono to leave the floor and thus abstain from the balloting...
...Shipping News won the National Book Award last week, supported herself by writing for small to middling outdoor magazines. This is very close to being impossible. The caloric content of the checks that drift in months late is only marginally greater than that of rejection slips burned in the wood stove...