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...text that transcends mere differences in language. Though the text can sometimes be confusing, what’s found there speaks to the great questions of human existence and reality.“No one writes poetry any longer,” Étienne writes, “bric-a-brac in an old hardware store.” While poetry is a commodity in our world, it is an organic creation, fundamental, “almost begging to be written” in Étienne’s. The poems in “King...
...What's more, this is no longer an exclusively American crisis. European banks are going under as well. Growth rates in the euro zone and Japan have fallen further than in the U.S. Emerging markets too are suffering. With the exception of Brazil, stock markets in the BRIC economies (Brazil, Russia, India and China) are now down about 40% or more on the year...
...first, as well as Josiah Wedgwood’s 18th century English reproduction of the Portland Vase which is not only reminiscent of Greek red and black figure pottery, but also appears in William Michael Harnett’s “Still Life with Bric-a-Brac” along with a late 16th century Iranian torch stand also on display. The connections between works are endless and can be overwhelming if not explored leisurely. As the hyphen suggests, “Re-View” is not merely a review of the Harvard Art Museum?...
...home of his friend, Nelly, while he finishes a book on Henry James and the uncanny. Nelly, an artist who lives and works in a disused Victorian textile mill called the Preserve, located in a postindustrial part of the city, fashions elusive, compelling works out of salvaged objects and bric-a-brac; they are concerned "with what was discarded and ephemeral yet caught in the tatters of memory." She also paints canvases, has them painstakingly photographed, then (supposedly) destroys the original works before mounting an exhibition of only the photographs...
...consumption boom fueled by massive oil and gas exports. The result has been a huge surge in foreign direct investment: last year Russia attracted $52.5 billion - four times the $12.9 billion it pulled in as recently as 2005. That puts it ahead of two of the three other BRIC countries, India and Brazil. And while it still lags behind China in absolute terms, Russia is at the head of the pack when FDI is measured on a per-capita basis...