Word: artes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pain without victimizing the subject. Zhang reduces life to its most basic elements-the individual and the interpersonal--and makes moments timeless. Unlike China's more commercial directors such as Feng Xiaogang, Zhang is not trying to play to a popular trope but to create a work of art that "could be seen 500 years ago or 500 years in the future and still be relevant...
...made a hellacious garage noise with instruments they could barely play, but they had something to say. Basically: "screw you, I am human and alive and can hurt myself more than you can ever hurt me so do what you want." Which is pretty much which most great art says, if you think about it. Rock and roll demands attention because it is made by losers who never got any before; pop is made by pretty boys and jocks and all the kids at Archie's Riverdale High, who have, y'know, problems and all, but never feel compelled...
Politics may be the art of compromise, but when it comes to the budget, these days, that's never as easy as splitting the difference. A Wednesday deadline began to look a little unrealistic Tuesday as White House and congressional negotiators hunkered down to bridge the gaps between them over spending on education, law enforcement and the U.N. While both sides could concede a couple of million here and there to the other's pet causes, the margin for horse trading is considerably diminished by the bipartisan consensus on fiscal discipline...
Hart, 52, who never finished grad school, runs the site from his Urbana home, adding 30 to 40 books a week. Next he hopes to start entering works of art and music. Hart contends that free books over the Internet will shake up civilization in the 21st century even more than Johannes Gutenberg's movable type did in the 15th. "Democracy," he says, "is dependent on people knowing enough to make a choice...
...American art song is still alive and well, judging by this lovely CD, on which a studioful of opera stars, including Renee Fleming, Sylvia McNair and Frederica von Stade, performs 26 songs by Californian Heggie, who is currently adapting Dead Man Walking for the San Francisco Opera. Heggie sets poems in English by poets old (Emily Dickinson) and new (Philip Littell) in the Samuel Barber/Ned Rorem manner--agreeably lyrical, unambiguously tonal--and his big-league cast responds with obvious relish...