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We designed three pairs of targeting hooks to investigate the selectivity of the new TAR cloning system.
Martinis, barbecues, cigarettes, adultery--all are now vestigial, but where are the new suburban symbolic hooks?
So-called public intellectuals like West, bell hooks, and, yes, Henry Louis Gates Jr. himself, seem to me both dishonest and selfish--they're in it for the money and the power as much as out of any sense of obligation or responsibility to the black community.
Rodchenko's designs--in red and black, crisply diagonal, filled with visual hooks and slams--are still being aped today, and some of them manage to look more modern than anything around now (Mayakovsky's apparently catchy rhymed slogans, unfortunately, do not translate well).
The truth is that Wieseltier's piece was a shameful, spite-ridden hatchet job on West, motivated almost entirely by the fact that West had been profiled in The New Yorker in 1994 and then assessed (along with lesser lights bell hooks and Michael Dyson) by me in a January 1995 essay that likened contemporary black intellectuals to the New York intellectuals of the postwar period.