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...revolutionary mood is understandable when you pair the severe U.N. economic sanctions with the government's preoccupation with protecting its internal security. Their priority is the struggle for sustenance for themselves and their families, a daily struggle that leaves little room for other than dreaming about the abstract chimera of political change...
...presidential campaign in full swing, the American flag may be the most pervasive symbol of the season. As a work of graphic design, it may also be the most taken for granted. This wasn't so back in the 1950s when Jasper Johns altered the course of American painting--Abstract Expressionism had been king-- with a series of bright, bold pictures of flags as well as targets and numerals. The works were blunt and direct, with no emotional charge. Johns never got into Pop, but those artists borrowed from him, as did Conceptualists and Minimalists. From...
...getting naked ? well, almost naked. She does, several times, and she is, as we used to say a damned handsome woman. But so far as this movie is concerned, not a very sexy one, says TIME's Richard Schickel. Writer-director Andrew Bergman presents her as a rather abstract object of desire. He wants us to know that his mind, at least, is not in the gutter. The film places Moore's character, a stripper named Erin Grant, in a nasty fight to regain custody of her daughter from a creepy former spouse, which in turn involves...
...cops in a police state find Pramoedya an embarrassment and a danger. A final irony in this rich lode is that for several years Pramoedya has suffered from writer's block in regard to his fiction. Presently he is working on an Indonesian encyclopedia. "Indonesia is still an abstract concept for me," he says wryly. An encyclopedia, he thinks, might help make this diffuse country of 17,000 islands and 365 languages and dialects a more graspable reality. For his readers, the Buru Quartet has already done that...
PETA and other animal rights activists believe they are being compassionate and easing the amount of suffering in the world. However, instead of decreasing suffering, they are simply trading others' lives for an abstract, ill-defined principle. PETA believes that humans have no rights to use other animals for research because they are being discriminatory on the basis of species, much like racism or sexism. By decreasing the temporary suffering of a few laboratory rats, they are condemning humans to suffering permanently...