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...giant stooping under the ceiling of his Bronx home; the boy in Central Park, his face a rictus of hostility; the man in curlers (pictured here), with an expression at once vulnerable and defiant. To call these images arresting is to understate their ability to drag you on a bleak journey through the urban aridity of the mid-20th century. But steel yourself. If there's a current exhibition in London that can be fairly described as a must-see, it's this...
...restore your sense of wonder of his Bronx home; the boy in Central Park, his face a rictus of hostility; the man in curlers (pictured here), with an expression at once vulnerable and defiant. To call these images arresting is to understate their ability to drag you on a bleak journey through the urban aridity of the mid-20th century. But steel yourself. If there's a current exhibition in London that can be fairly described as a must-see, it's this...
...There are highly worked details,” said Miller. But she said that, overall, the inside of the center “is kind of generic. This interior could be found in any speculative office park.” And, although the interior is far from being the bleak setting of “Office Space,” the brushed metal, opaque glass, and pale wood used throughout CGIS often recall the materials found in any Ikea catalog. The same problem reappears in the actual structure of the interior corridors and rooms. Inside and outside, the same shapes...
...underlining of the song’s lyrics (“sleeping is giving in,” cue sleeping girl), an exercise in absurdly facile representation. And isn’t “Power Out” supposed to be a bleak tale of generational alienation, disguised as a propelled anthem? Why, then, do the little kids in the video take such unabashed glee in isolating themselves from their parents? It seems the directors shamefully saw the lyrics as two-dimensionally as their artwork. “Laika” is not quite as insulting to its source...
...history and that as much as 25% of the 800,000 auto-manufacturing jobs in the nation will be cut over the next 10 years as suppliers increasingly shift production abroad. The book, titled Crash Course, has attracted wide attention in Germany, with some reviewers calling it overly bleak. Retorts Becker: "They call it bleak because Germans prefer to hear fairy tales rather than the reality...