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...offers a rare and fascinating look at the captive artists' spin on life in the Hermit Kingdom. The 285 works on display are relatively recent, but they might easily have come from Stalin's Soviet Union or Mao's China. The North Korean art clock seems to have stopped circa 1930-50, and the impression that emerges from the exhibition is of a remote, sad and strangely poignant land...
...THIS: Since 1951 rancher Waldo Wilcox, 74, had kept most outsiders from his 4,200 acres in a rugged part of eastern Utah. So it was only last week that the public saw, for the first time, his pristine secret: the ruins of an ancient (circa A.D. 900) Fremont Indian civilization. Among the well-preserved treasures are stone houses, arrowheads, pottery and rock-wall artwork...
...Lass?’” I asked her. “What if we called ourselves ‘lasses’?” My roommate chortled. I discontinued the experiment and resorted to reference books. Unfortunately, the copy of The Underground Dictionary (circa 1971) that I borrowed from the Winthrop House library does not offer any attractive options; I cannot imagine referring to myself or to young women of my acquaintance as “babes,” “birds” or “foxes...
...avowed library-phobe, and in the interests of a fair trial, here is a comprehensive list of Lamont’s redeeming features: those heavenly chairs which sink faster than the latest Bennifer venture and, like Gigli, are guaranteed to induce snores in under 15 minutes; the comfortingly kitsch circa 1973 aesthetic of the glass-cabinet book displays, usually an attempt to illustrate some point of the “Poetry is Fun!” ilk (a reminder anyone stuck on page six of a troublesome paper on the footnotes of “The Wasteland” sorely...
...same oblique way that the Strokes evoke New York circa 1977, it could be said that Franz Ferdinand’s self-titled debut evokes London circa 1981. Their post-punk sound has led some to call them the new Joy Division, but this is unfair for two reasons: first, they shoot much higher than cynical retro-fetishism, and, second, Joy Division were never this good...