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...FEELING In his day job, TIME film critic Richard Corliss writes sharp, informed (and extremely quotable) reviews of the current cinema. Happily for us at TIME.com he also writes "That Old Feeling," a weekly column that spotlights, and often celebrates, the rich popular arts and entertainments of the 20th century. Last week Corliss gave out the Feelies, his awards for the best creaky culture of 2001. This week he writes on the closing of the peerless collection of movie stills at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. As he writes, "May everything old be new again." At time.com...
...long time, many scientists believed that the human life-span was infinitely extendible. The average life-span early in the evolution of Homo sapiens is thought to have been just 20 years. By the beginning of the 20th century, that figure more than doubled--to a still brief 47. Since then, however, life expectancy has been exploding, with people in the developed world now able to live deep into their 70s and often beyond...
Painting and sculpture from the 19th century and the first half of the 20th embody the taste of the local bourgeoisie: allegories to foster self-improvement, biblical scenes to inspire the faithful, nudity domesticated by classical settings, society ladies frozen for posterity in tight waists and inflated hairstyles. In contrast, a fashion exhibit features more relaxed garments from the '20s to current couture. The original collection has also been boosted by loans from the likes of the Musée d'Orsay, adding works by Tamara de Lempicka, who painted celebrities of the '30s in their designer glad rags...
...Then our lynx eyes droop and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.’s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. “The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud.” (V.G.); “But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say.” (A.E.) Now one such might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This...
There is no dome, no minaret, nothing but a small sign to indicate that this rundown Victorian house in the multiethnic south London neighborhood of Brixton is a mosque. But the fact that would-be shoe-bomber Richard Reid and the alleged 20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui both worshiped here during the mid-'90s has brought the Brixton Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre an unwelcome notoriety. Along with London's Finsbury Park Mosque and fundamentalist cleric Abu Qatada's prayer meetings near Baker Street, Brixton seemed yet another nexus of Islamic extremism in the capital...