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...Hughes was visited by Death. "He was sitting at a desk, like a banker. He made no gesture, but he opened his mouth and I looked right down his throat, which distended [an error occurred while processing this directive] to become a tunnel: the bocca d'inferno of old Christian art." So Hughes begins his new memoir, Things I Didn't Know, quite literally with a bang. The accident took place in 1999 on a deserted road in Western Australia, where the eminent art critic, author and television personality (The Shock of the New, Goya) was making a TV series...
...mall. First, a clarification. Confusingly, Ballard is perhaps best known for Empire of the Sun, a surprisingly sunny best seller based on his World War II boyhood in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai - and the inspiration for Steven Spielberg's 1987 feel-good movie of that name, starring Christian Bale. But Ballard is also famous for a more sinister novel, Crash, about car-wreck aficionados in outer London, which David Cronenberg made into that notoriously creepy 1996 film, set in Los Angeles. Even typical Ballard tales, like Cocaine Nights (1996) or Super-Cannes (2000), are not exactly walks...
Bonnie ‘Prince’ BillyThe Letting Go(Drag City)4.5 of 5 StarsBy ABE J. RIESMANCRIMSON STAFF WRITER Will Oldham, whether singing as Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Palace Music, or his own Christian name, likes his songs to exist outside of time.So, anyone familiar with his voluminous catalog—equal parts confounding and transcendent—will know that something strange is afoot in the opening line of his new album.“When the numbers / get so high / of the dead / flying through the sky,” he mumble...
...Instead, his words only incited violence. Perhaps more intriguing than the speech, though, was the pope’s apology, which came amid protests and attacks on Christian institutions in countries with large Muslim populations...
...EXECUTED. Fabianus Tibo, 60, Marinus Riwu, 48, and Dominggus da Silva, 42, Christian militants convicted of plotting the massacre of at least 70 Muslims on Sulawesi during sectarian violence on the Indonesian island in 1998-2000; in Poso, Indonesia. Rights groups criticized the trio's 2001 conviction, claiming that Muslims had received lighter sentences for similar crimes, while the Vatican issued a plea for clemency last month. Christians rioted across eastern Indonesia following the executions...