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...moved on to make other works in series, notably the black on black canvases from 1964. In each of them, a black square rides on a background only very slightly less black. Rothko wasn't fiddling with an art-historical endgame here, trying to see how flat and stark he could make his pictures. The Black-Form paintings, as they are known, are emblems for existence itself, statements at a near-molecular level of detail about the minimal order necessary to distinguish life from the disorder of death. Indeed, look at them long enough and they make you think...
...wake of a second school shooting in 10 months--which claimed 11 lives at a trade school 180 miles (290 km) northwest of the capital--the government announced it will move to tighten Finland's lax gun laws by submitting amendments to Parliament that would restrict licensing and deepen background checks. The nation's strong hunting tradition has spurred one of the world's highest rates of gun ownership...
...Clinton.And while Clinton praises Palin as an excellent choice because of her pregnant daughter and son with Down syndrome, Barack Obama’s amazing rhetoric and Harvard education have made him seem “aloof.” He’s an elitist whose Ivy-League background and experience in an Indonesian school need to be counterbalanced by his often-repeated “only in America” biography. There is something troubling in the continued emphasis on our candidates being ordinary and familiar, never wise and extraordinary, on being baby-havers, not baby-kissers. McCain?...
...winsome White House aspirant in 2008. There were moments on Friday night when, as a pasty and weary Sen. McCain ground out a response to one of Jim Lehrer’s probing questions, that Obama seemed to be filming a future episode of The West Wing in the background: smiling genuinely and looking with a true statesman’s curiosity at his rival. You half-expected the Democrat to start juggling chairs or audience members while the dollop of cottage cheese from Sedona stumbled through “Ahmadinejad...
...theory is that the media, bolstered by conservative wishful thinking, got bored with the early Michelle Obama narrative - that she was a successful professional with a blue-collar background, degrees from Princeton and Harvard, and a penchant for making wifely jabs about her husband's morning breath - and switched to the Michelle-as-liability narrative to keep things entertaining. Certainly it seems that Michelle has paid as steep a political price for her national-pride remark, which some of us were not actually offended by, as Cindy McCain has for any of her own shortcomings...