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...ironically, those borrowing from a more traditional Eastern sense of elegance and simplicity, rather than the stereotypically busy idea of America. Bauchi Zhang of China offers "Did God Create the Chinese?", a visually striking, yet simplistically eloquent work, consisting only of a molded hand cleft by a knife, a mirror, and wood. The work speaks directly and without distraction--a quality to be prized in capturing the unruly nature of questions of identity. Most importantly, the straightforward nature of the work suggests a mind that has cogitated carefully enough on the subject to realize its basic nature while not losing...
...fall term, two of the six consultants who agreed to serve as on-line sounding boards for strategies devised by students included R. Clayton Mulford, key advisor to the 1992 H. Ross Perot presidential campaign and Donald Kellerman, founding director of the Times-Mirror Center for the People and the Press...
PHIL GRAMM WHAT YOU SEE: Two mirror images of Dole. A sinister-sounding narrator says, "Remember Senator Straddle. He cut deals, and voters rejected him," adding that Dole has "caved in" on the budget...
...negotiating these things, your eye becomes tuned to the distance of the figures and to the air around them: the woman at the keyboard whose back is turned but whose absorbed face can be glimpsed in the canted wall mirror, and her teacher (or perhaps, given Vermeer's interest in music as a metaphor of harmonious love, her suitor) in black. You can gauge the depth of the room from the perspective clarity of its floor tiles. It is real, but at the end it becomes a paradise of abstraction, in the sober play of dark-framed rectangles of picture...
...joke is that until now, Kinnear has been making eye contact mainly with a TV camera. On Later, a half-hour chat show with a single guest, he uses it with irony, as a mirror to check how very fabulous he looks. Or, after the guest has uttered some mild inanity, Kinnear stares ahead mutely, as if he'd just been whacked on the skull by a bear paw but is too stoic to wince. It's this bland poise that keeps him from blinking when film stardom stares him in the face...