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Nobody was really sure if Dylan's long-delayed, much-ballyhooed autobiography would ever get written, and if it did, if it would actually make any sense. It did both: skipping forward and back in time, Chronicles covers Dylan's Minnesota beginnings, his influences (Bertolt Brecht?), his studio sessions, his grouchy discomfort with fame and his sense (while on tour with Tom Petty in the 1980s) of being not so much tangled up as washed up. It's coy and revealing at the same time--in other words, quintessentially Dylanesque...
...plan does have a certain breathtaking screwball grandeur, like some '30s movie written by Bertolt Brecht and directed by Preston Sturges. Donald Trump, the young multimillionaire real estate developer, owns 100 vacant acres of Hudson River waterfront just northwest of midtown Manhattan, a parcel that he characteristically calls "the greatest piece of urban land in America--the greatest piece of land in the world." One hundred acres! In one spot in Manhattan! At the center of that plot, the developer announced last week, he intends to put up the world's tallest building, an office and apartment tower shooting...
...Bertolt Brecht’s Ba’al is a play about the power of sex, amorality and decadence that culminates in self-destruction. Written in 1919 following the armistice ending World War I, the play captures the nihilism and moral uncertainty arising from the modern world’s first widespread glimpse at meaningless violence and annihilation...
...three artists exhibited in Eat Art, Dieter Roth is the most ironic and perhaps the most macabre. Bertolt Brecht’s idea that we only eat in order to excrete is applicable to his work. The juxtaposition of a lion made out of chocolate (which he calls a self portrait) and bunny made out of excrement reveals that eating is just part of the digestive process. Ironically, after 30 years of decomposition, the chocolate lion is more revolting than the bunny. Roth is poking fun at the heroism and self-aggrandizement that is often associated with sculpture. Beuys does...
...Jacob Gade "Let It Be Me" (The Everly Brothers) from the French song "Je t'appartiens" by Gilbert Becaud and Pierre Delanoe "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (The Tokens) from the South African chant "Wimoweh" "Mack the Knife" (Bobby Darin) from the German song "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer" by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill "My Way" (Frank Sinatra) from the French song "Comme d'habitude" by Jacques Revaux and Claude François "Skokian" (The Four Lads) from the Zulu song by August Msarurgwa "Strangers in the Night" (Frank Sinatra) from the German song by Bert Kaempfert...