Word: canted
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...cheap alternative to having a car, quickly takes a Bostonian from place to place, and allows a rider to enjoy the guitar stylings of tone-deaf singers, but the real reason I ride the T is that my cell phone cant ring. While sitting on the T, Ia Harvard student with papers to write, activities to activitate, and roommates to gossip withhave license to do absolutely nothing...
...revelation of the show, curated by Bruce James, is that artists like Gleeson, James Cant and Robert Klippel cut to the heart of European Surrealism, rubbing shoulders with Breton and Joan Mir? in Paris, and exhibiting with Roland Penrose and Man Ray in London. "Surrealism was not nationalistic, it was an international movement," says James. "In fact it was rampantly global in its ambitions. The term revolution was entirely justified because these artists really wanted to change the world." A decade since the National Gallery of Australia's "Surrealism: Revolution by Night" reunited the Antipodeans with their contemporaries overseas...
What does survive is The Lonely Coast, 1939, painted around the time of Cant's return to Australia. With this seascape of roiling waves under ominous clouds, a generation's fear of war is made transparent. That is the true subject of a collection that begins in 1925 and ends in 1955. Here even the most whimsical of images, Eric Thake's Happy Landing, 1939, speaks of the turbines of warfare. It was war that brought German ?migr? Hein Heckroth to Australia. His brief detention in rural N.S.W. resulted in one of the show's loveliest works, Surreal Landscape...
...this election is jobs and economic security," Howard Dean said in Urbandale, Iowa, a few days after Christmas. "Iraq is an important issue, but it's not as important as jobs." This seemed to be the sort of thing Dean practically never does--a descent into standard party cant. Democrats are almost always depressed about the economy and rarely obsessed by foreign policy. It was doubly odd because Iraq has been Dean's signature issue. He would probably be an asterisk today if he hadn't stepped out from the pack and opposed the war. And the election...
Dean tricked out his speech--a prepared text, delivered indifferently--with references to the power of the special interests and the need to clean house in Washington. But no amount of populist cant could disguise the fact that the speech was about process, not ideas. Indeed, Dean's whoosh of a campaign hasn't featured very much creative policy thinking. Think about it: Apart from his early stand against the war in Iraq, what has distinguished Dean's candidacy from that of the other Democrats? The propellant for the Dean surge has been almost all style and process--the Internet...