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...form of bonding -- solidarities of atrocity on the late shift. The truck-driver video looked like ritual sacrifice, the helicopter circling overhead, the rioters circling the trucker's flung body. Both videos recorded naked power dances, conscienceless, brainless, evil, pain inflicting: I have your life under my boot. To look at them last week was to see Americans of both races going backward at the speed of light...
...Well, we have been committed since the notorious -- some would say -- bill of 1977 ((declaring French to be Quebec's official language)) to set up a society that functions in French. Does that mean Quebecois should not learn English? By God, I'll boot the rear end of anyone who can't speak English. In our day and times, a small people like us must speak English...
...load for small clay objects to carry, but one of the virtues of Price's work is that it never seems pompous and only rarely trivial. Some of the time, it mocks itself. Certain Prices look like exquisitely glazed versions of stuff you would want to scrape off your boot. And what about Wart Cup, 1968, for a title? One can't claim too much for his cups, which is a relief in a culture that tends to claim far too much for its paintings, but the whole show in Minneapolis is infused with an educated sense of style that...
...ever there was a song to quicken the blood of the living and raise the spirits of the dead, surely it is France's national anthem, the Marseillaise, whose music once inspired the men of the Midi to boot out invading Prussians, march on Paris -- whistling the tune as they went -- depose the King and fire the imagination of all Europe. That was 200 years ago. Today the song's robust words, which bristle with righteous anger at la tyrannie and enjoin the children of revolutionary France to "drench our fields" with the "tainted blood" of the enemy, are under...
...Boat (Das Boot...