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… objects hung on walls, tucked under glass, backlit on pedestals: a toaster, a child’s pedal car, a modem handmade in … pregnancy stick. A positive drug test. An axe. They come from Taipei, from Slovenia, from Colorado, from Manila, … longer than their relationship, he said: “made of sturdier material.” When Olinka and Dražen finally found a …
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… reading of the First Amendment led him, on balance, to come down against any abridgment of free speech. But I doubt … not if, in addition to being lascivious, the film also was reputed to be funny. He once explained to me, with … artists talented enough to be taken seriously, and their audience was never left in doubt that their subjects responded …
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… in 1962 to begin graduate school. I was reading Life Studies for the first time. The angst, the vulnerability, the … a racial slur and internalizing it against the self, points forward to the self-denigrating images in another … to what I wrote in my letter—I can hardly say after 26 years— the quoted part of the poems reads: We’re in a …
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… up. Bit into this body until it showed itself, raw, bloodied. I left Russia single. It would take another three years for me to come to terms with my gender. Some six years after living in … Russia, officially establishing its independence on May 26, 1918, a sovereignty supposedly recognised by Russia in …
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… Africa and the Walls of Troy The days that are still to come are the wisest witnesses. … of re buffs through expulsion from international bodies, and the tolerance of guerrilla activity. Both the … was like the Mediterranean. The principal strategic points were in the hands of the West. It was a linkage …
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… Brown’s Faint Revival We come then to the question presented: Does segregation of … African American and Latino. The home ownership rate—about 26 percent—is the second lowest in the nation. About 41 … “We will make this happen by using our minds, bodies, voices, and hearts to: care for one another, treat …