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...yeah. I do see myself as an American author, but I think that we often have a very narrow notion of what American writing is. I think that what's happening right now in American literature is a kind of avant-gardism of content...People are less interested in experimenting with form and are more interested in dragging into the novel all kinds of new content, including talking about ethnic groups that have never been represented before. And to the degree that everyone seems to have decided that homosexuals will be treated as though they were an ethnic group...
Some time after his arrival here from the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago eight years ago, Professor Stager was made the director of the museum. Put starkly, he had zero interest in the work it did. A learned but extraordinarily narrow specialist, he saw the space and the moneys the museum uses as assets he could annex to his own archaeological enterprises. In this sense his war against the museum is an easily understood university quarrel. It's what one Harvard wag calls "space imperialism...
...vote in New Jersey's gubernatorial election had been a political boast, he said last week, concocted as a "head game" with his rival political strategist, James Carville. That was Rollins' explanation last week for earlier remarks that had touched off a furor following Republican Christine Todd Whitman's narrow victory over incumbent Democrat James Florio...
...late Cubism is obvious -- the flat, sharp overlaps of form, legible silhouettes and generally high degree of abstraction in the color -- it isn't notably dynamic; ^ it tends to an Egyptian stillness, friezelike even when you know the subject was in motion, like the crowd surging into the narrow slot between two railroad cars in No. 23, And the Migration Spread...
Dukakis rejected a questioner's suggestion that Clinton's popularity would suffer from narrow margins of legislative victory, like this week's nail-biting passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement in the House...