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...redeeming quality: they're short. After the al-Hais brothers have spoken, all that's required of the other speakers is to agree as quickly as possible. Then it's back to the singing and dancing, and now some of the sheiks are coaxed to join in. A poet, clad incongruously in leather jacket and trousers, loudly declaims the virtues of patriotism and warns against those who would seek to hurt Iraq. Again, there are knowing smirks all around: he's talking, of course, about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Anbar Province, Iraq's Sheiks Discover Democracy | 11/25/2008 | See Source »

...time each cycle, play over “I’m Through With Love,” a song from Monroe’s film “Some Like It Hot.” Many of Conner’s other films feature nude or scantily clad women, usually juxtaposed along footage concerned with violence, disaster or population explosion. The artist seems in search of a sort of mimesis of consciousness for the modern man—a clustered, disorienting rush of disconnected, yet inexplicably related dialogues on history, culture and gender as they have traveled through time...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HFA Glances Back at Conner | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...Yard in front of the John Harvard statue, students bobbed to the music in parkas and sipped apple cider and hot chocolate. Those who braved the chill waved glow sticks and foam fingers as CEB members threw balloons into the crowd. Several police officers stood on stage, as Gillis, clad in a crimson CEB sweatshirt, sampled from songs that varied from Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” to UGK’s “International Player’s Anthem (I Choose You).” But after crowdgoers caused part...

Author: By Chelsea L. Shover, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rally, Girl Talk Concert Cut Short | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

Policewomen, clad in black chadors, with guns slung over their shoulders: the cover of Transit Tehran - an anthology of writing, art and photography - bears exactly the sort of bristly image you would expect to see of the Iranian capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lifting the Veil | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

...Living with artistic and social restraint is thus the thematic connection between much of the work. Javad Montazeri contributes a touching photo essay of women swimming, fully clad, and sadly ponders the fact that when his daughter is 9 she too will be forced to swim in the same restrictive garments. Rapper Mehrak Golestani, a.k.a. Reveal, writes about secret house parties where DJs silence the decks at 5 a.m. so that the first call to prayer can be heard. Khosrow Hassanzadeh satirizes official portraits of "martyrs" in the war with Iraq by painting his friends in the same style...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lifting the Veil | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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