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...rapturous disembodiment," a typical paean begins. "We breathe our selves, like lovers, into its tiny receptacle, and glide out the other end, mere voice, mere function. Wires, currents, satellites, electrical systems: these are the hardware we extend ourselves into, spaced out, underground, alive in the trembling skeins that arch across nations...
...Officers were dispatched to Adams House E entryway to respond to a report of a group of individuals making an arch in the entryway using balloons. The officers arrived and spoke with the individuals in question and advised them to leave the archway alone. 3:54 a.m.—An officer was dispatched to University Health Services in response to a report of an individual causing a disturbance. The officers arrived and reported that the individual was being cooperative and would be spending the night. Dec. 19: 11:09 a.m.—An officer observed an individual...
...there’s one thing that we know about Bush and his fellow arch-conservatives, it’s that they only cry strict construction when it serves their purposes; still, pointing this out and “beating them at their own game” misses the larger and more salient point. Whether Bush’s expansion of powers—his reinterpretation of conventions regarding torture, the executive directive in question, among others—is technically legal or constitutional is secondary to whether it is right and in accordance with the American ideals, the American...
...these small, melancholy works are exquisite records of contemporary riverbanks and parks where men and women, in the constricting clothes of the day, stroll, picnic or fish. Rousseau omits no unromantic detail: railway bridges, factories, chimneys, piers. In the stormy View of Malakoff (1908), telegraph poles and cables arch over houses, trees and passersby. Sometimes the sky is a background for hot-air balloons, biplanes, the Eiffel Tower, even zeppelins, as in Ivry Quay (circa 1907). Rousseau's people were not always successful. Hands look like kilos of sausages, and some of his portraits verge on the grotesque - the child...
...only interlude from these typographical prestidigitations, Aesop cuts guest Metro’s brief appearance short with a shove. This is his side-show, and collaborators better recognize. That said, Aes is anything but easy to pigeonhole; one of his last montages is an arch constructed entirely from photos of his friends and family...