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That's what Gov. William F. Weld '66 did last week. And this strange allusion to the world of comic-strip characters was not the only time Weld showed that his Massachusetts 2000 plan is completely detached from the real world of public education in Massachusetts...
...first visual use was in a 1956 collage by the British artist Richard Hamilton, Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?, in which a body-builder hero is holding an enormous phallic sucker labeled POP, and a blown-up frame from a romance comic -- a prediction of the as yet undone work of Roy Lichtenstein -- hangs on the wall. Nor, just for the record, was this the only time the Brits were ahead of the Yanks. The chrome-plated whiskey bottles and other bibelots that New York's Jeff Koons was doing...
...about consumption, and it sat up and begged to be consumed. It also fed back, with incredible speed, into the domain of popular culture -- partly because it was so easily, and at times misleadingly, reproducible. (An early Lichtenstein like Masterpiece, 1962, inflates with complications when liberated from a comic-strip frame; reproduced in print, it collapses back into one again...
...characterization of women's professional behavior, which points to the dangers of generalization on this issue. One rebuttal might come from all the women who have struggled to erase their gender at the office door. "The minute I get in, I become one of the guys," says stand-up comic Reno, who works in comedy clubs. "I've got to take my breasts off and talk from the head up and slap everybody around. I become this desexualized creature so that we can all work together...
Fardan's remarks were ridiculous fictions, and could have been extremely damagaging if they weren't so comic. The grafting of genes has made major strides only in the last few years, and I don't believe that even Fardan would argue that white people are a 20th century phenomenon...