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Signac was also an energetic and talented writer, an avid reader and bibliophile, and an ardent backer of the avant-garde in the days when that word actually meant something. "The golden age has not passed," ran the subtitle he appended to an enormous didactic canvas, In the Time of Harmony, 1893-95. "It lies in the future." The picture set out to depict the joys of anarchist cooperation: free love, picnics, games of boule on the beach, farm labor made easy by a steam-powered reaper in the distance. What in fact lay in the future was the trenches...
...melody with a curious style of quasi-singing that can only be described as guttural muttering. The technique is featured prominently on the album’s first single, the ridiculously titled “I’m a Slave 4 U.” Even her most ardent fans would concede that she is worthless as a pure vocalist, but bad vocalists can still be effective singers: witness Bob Dylan. Instead of electronically manipulating her voice à la Cher in 1998’s “Believe,” Spears’ producers have...
Dartboard was very disappointed to hear this. An ardent Gore supporter throughout the election, Dartboard would have been the first to attack the Supreme Court, the Florida ballot, and then-candidate Bush. But upon reading further, Dartboard discovered that all parties, including Gore, were at fault for dismissing justice in the interest of politics...
...spot. It allows you to reach your happy place with finesse and pressure, just as hard as you like.” The “Twist” is a leather arm binder for S & M sex that is “very functional: a must have for ardent bondage fans.” But the highlight of the review page was the “Hello Kitty Vibe” with Kitty vibrating: “it’s petite, it’s pink, it’s a Hello Kitty vibrator...
...sixth on the Forbes list of the world's richest people and has some $16 billion invested in such American companies as Citigroup ($9.65 billion), News Corp. ($1.1 billion), Apple ($314 million) and TIME's parent company, AOL Time Warner ($932 million), is known as one of the most ardent Arab supporters of the U.S. "It is my personal duty," he said before leaving Saudi Arabia for a trip to New York City, "to show my alliance and show the real face of the Arab, Islam and Saudi Arabia." And so, during a tour of ground zero, he presented...