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...names like Sol Lewit, Jill Anderson, Carl Andre and Lawrence Weiner. The purport of the project, sponsored by Pilot Programs 217, Brooklyn, artkrush.com, and Clifford Smith, is to "introduce young to ideas and images in contemporary art." This, though, only begs the question: Can art, especially contemporary art, whose bent is highly intellectual and who's philosophical underpinnings are still being forged, be taught to elementary school children...
...grim fate. You don't quite believe that Alonzo's once supportive neighbors would suddenly turn their backs on him when his crimes are exposed. You mean to say they never knew? You mean to say they didn't take a certain satisfaction in the way he bent the system to his own advantage? This resort to conventional morality betrays the amoral logic of the movie. It is perhaps the price you pay for big-studio backing, but it takes some of the edge off an otherwise smart, nasty, potent movie...
...make the world free—patriotism does not prevent us from hanging our heads in sorrow. But it does forbid us from wringing our hands and walking away. And I think all those war-crazed lunatics who, like me, have lined up behind a president supposedly hell-bent on inflicting Mosaic revenge (lunatics like Al Gore ’69, Tom Daschle, and Dick Gephardt, to name a few) would probably talk of patriotism in similar terms...
...Sept. 11. While everyone seems to have a slightly different version about why disaster struck and what might have been done to prevent it, most of these explanations fall squarely into one of two camps. Elements of the right argue that Islam is a violent religion whose followers are bent on destroying America. They hold up CNN footage of a small cheering group of hooligans in the West Bank as proof that all Arabs are waging war on America...
...market that remains vaguely fearful but seems nonetheless bent on spending its days haggling over the bottom, anything that smells of action could be the ticket to ride. The question will then be what such a rally would be made of. It would be built on the assumption that everything will go our way from here, abroad and at home, and if there is military action it's not too telegenic. (Consumers don't shop when they're watching the news.) It could be very fragile indeed...