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...labels such as "black," "white," "left," "right," "offensive" or "as harmlessly amusing as Friends." Unlike many of today's allegedly political comics, whose insights go no deeper than poking knee-jerk fun at Bill Clinton's appetites or George W. Bush's intellectual dullness, Rock at his best lays bare society's underlying fault lines. And there's no one he won't take to task: last season his HBO talk show featured a parody instructional video, How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police. "Follow these easy tips," Rock said. "First, obey the law!" Rock knows...
...Instead, America is increasingly seen as the arrogant bully of the international community. Hearing that hundreds of protesters had shown up in front of President Bush’s hotel in Gotebord, Sweden, to bare their behinds at him did not square with my image of America...
...struggle to distill the building process to its essentials--vertical and horizontal structure, bare but lustrous materials--Mies produced his poetry through painstaking details. He made a fetish of the proper way to expose the steel I beams at the corners of his buildings. As Frank Lloyd Wright also did, Mies exploded the confined rooms of 19th century interior space, producing the open-plan homes and work spaces--"universal space" he called it--that are now pretty much universal...
...every city and suburban office park. What we learned from those is that mediocre Modernism looks even worse than mediocre Victorian. There's less to look at, and what there is, is cheap. But Mies' work was something different. He found a way to make the barest of bare bones sumptuous and even exciting. As Spencer Tracy once said about Katharine Hepburn, "There ain't much meat on her, but what there is, is cherce...
...sick of being typecast and yearns for art-house fare, but that she's comfortable in "the small film world" she inhabits, meaning the commercial world of Hong Kong. And she'll do it all from a theatrical trunk of varied voices and styles: Marilyn Monroe one day, bare-midriffed and yet innocent, and Betty Boop the next, squealing with enthusiasm and buried under a floppy Caribbean cricket hat (of which she has a drawer full). The real Shu Qi? We may not have seen...