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...raise their three children alone. For nearly 40 years, he has had the help and companionship of Claire Churchill Walsh, a magazine editor. For a writer of his talent and durability, Ballard has won oddly few honors. (A republican, he declined a Commander of the British Empire award in 2003.) Australian author and academic Germaine Greer once called him "a great writer who hasn't written a great novel." Fans would disagree, though Ballard has few pretensions. "I detest the literary novel," he says. "It's about social relationships, and, by definition, it requires a static society where all those...
...decline into corruption. Ambitious Government concentrators and wannabe Faulkners melt for this stuff. Steven Zaillian’s new film adaptation of “All the King’s Men” must meet the expectations of devotees of the classic novel, the acclaim of the Academy-Award winning 1949 film of the same name, and the rabid Oscar hunt of its star Sean Penn. The movie will likely accomplish none of these goals, except perhaps the last. And even then, only if Matt Damon is taken out at the awards ceremony in a “Team...
Fast forward two years. The economist, instead of being lambasted in the wake of a criminal investigation, received the glowing support of his colleagues. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal, an award given to the most promising American economist under the age of 40. Previous winners included Paul R. Krugman, Harvard Professor Martin S. Feldstein ’61, Milton Friedman, and not surprisingly, Summers...
...Palace, French President Jacques Chirac presented her with the Médaille de la Famille Française - the medal of the French family, founded in the '20s to express the nation's gratitude for fecundity. In France, a quartet of children might net their mother a bronze award, six or seven could snare her a silver, but only a respectable married mother of eight or more is deemed worthy of gold. Each year, honors are bestowed on several thousand large families. If the concept seems anachronistic, that's because it is. There's a revolution sweeping through Europe...
...mounting his show. This is Not a Time for Dreaming is a film of the puppet show that evokes these two parallel experiences. The character Pierre: Artist looks very much like Huyghe, right down to his fashionable beard stubble and white tennis shoes. Despite winning serious recognition (a special award at the Venice Biennale in 2001, the Hugo Boss Prize in 2002), Huyghe's work has a distinct playfulness. Indeed, the Tate show featured some stand-up comedy performances. For One Year Celebration, Huyghe invited several artists and writers to invent new holidays, and the resulting posters proclaim such whimsical...