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...band of Chinese artists has pushed boundaries by depicting the lost souls trying to find their place in a rapidly developing society. Surrounded by the capitalist trappings that China's leaders hope will sate a politically repressed populace - chic clothes, cell phones, fast-food wrappers - these lonely figures wear blank or artificially cheery expressions. "As a child, my classmates and I sang revolutionary songs, and we had to write Mao's expressions over and over," says 43-year-old Zeng Fanzhi, whose portrait of a masked man with a cauterized visage sold for $1.63 million in London last month. "Then...
...used to like asking people what they do when a homeless man or woman begs them for money. I didn’t get a wide range of responses, and in fact most people just told me point-blank that they keep on walking by. But I remember one woman turned the question upside down and asked me to imagine what life would be like if those homeless people couldn’t ask anyone for help. “That,” she said, “is the life of a refugee...
...Crimson crews return to the Charles this fall to renew the annual quest for a national championship and to determine the character of its boats this year. Four seniors have graduated, and numerous sophomores and juniors will clamor to fill their vacated seats. While every year provides a blank slate, the excitement and experience that Harvard gained at Henley and other major regattas can only help the Crimson...
...Jigsaw Falling into Place,” Yorke sings, “What’s the use of instruments? / Words are a sawed-off shotgun.” There’s the usual amount of vocal retouching, but his spare lyrics are more point-blank then they have been in recent memory. They’re almost unfailingly ambiguous, yet they get deep beneath the skin—at least ours, if not his.“Weird Fish/Arpeggi” features the line: “Your eyes / They turn me / Why should I stay...
...ends. After one of her many abrupt departures from his life, Ricardo finds a toothbrush she has left behind in his apartment and experiences a visceral agony comparable to the withdrawal of an addict: “I was in a sweat all night, my mind blank, as I clutched the Guerlain toothbrush that I kept like a charm in my night table, chewing on my despair and jealousy. The next day I was a wreck, my body shaken by chills, without energy for anything, and I didn’t even want to eat.” As with...