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...corporate Goliath. But oddly enough, Hulu, which came out of beta in March, is a gorgeous piece of interface design laid over a technically very sweet video player. The offerings are eclectic but compelling: a handful of current shows (The Office, The Simpsons, 30 Rock), a larger handful of "classic"--i.e., old and canceled--shows (Adam-12? Alfred Hitchcock Presents? Airwolf?) and a random, sometimes startling collection of movies (Point Break! The Big Lebowski! End of Days!). No wonder Hulu has reportedly already sold its entire advertising inventory. It's depressing to live in a world in which huge, faceless...
...centerpiece of the show, both physically and metaphorically, is a pair of epic paintings, The Second of May and The Third of May. The latter, focusing on a white-shirted guerrilla with his arms stretched out in terror before a firing squad of French soldiers, is a classic of anti-war iconography, often interpreted as a 19th century take on the biblical theme of the slaughter of the innocents. The painting has been displayed before alongside The Second of May, a depiction of the previous day's battle, in which Spanish militias viciously attacked Napoleon's Mameluke soldiers...
...Without such measures, Albanel warned, France's art will continue to be snapped up by buyers abroad, while deep-pocketed French collectors will keep preferring to purchase the classic, often foreign-origin works they consider more valuable in terms of status and potential profit. "For every work that is imported, two works are exported," Albanel lamented...
...While that album was a self-conscious retreat from the more accessible pop architecture of “Rubber Factory,” its simplistic, riff-driven rock renounced the ambition and verve of previous material.More than any past recording, “Attack & Release” utilizes a classic, almost theatrical album structure, and while previous albums simply opened and shut, here the band almost seems to be telling a story. The opening track, “All You Ever Wanted,” ambles like southern folk through a warm, strange, watery atmosphere, before building strength and catapulting...
...thinks it can make the company work where Ford failed. Indeed, Tata might turn out to be more hard-nosed (and lucky) than Ford. For too long, Jag's American owners relied on the company's heritage to sell more cars, releasing model after model largely based on the classic Jaguar look that dates back to 1968. Though Ford never broke out separate results for Jaguar and Land Rover, analysts believe the former lost at least $10 billion over the past decade or so (Land Rover has been in good health the past few years and made an estimated...