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...lighter note, I understand you're a fan of The Big Lebowski, a cult classic in the States. Do you have a favorite scene...
...standings? It’s been a three year devolution for the former heavyweights: 2004-05 saw the Tigers post their first sub-.500 Ivy record, last year brought a miserable non-league performance preceding a recovery in league play (10-4, a record now looking like the classic “dead cat bounce”), and this year will likely end up with Princeton in last place for the first time ever...
...Majerus' untitled (violet) (1997), in which a purple rectangle hovers at the top of the canvas dripping color like a pair of wet blue jeans, has a classic simplicity that suggests Mark Rothko or even Henri Matisse. For years, critics have been mentioning Majerus in the same sentence as contemporary giants like Ellsworth Kelly, Claes Oldenburg, Sigmar Polke, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol - if only because he stole shamelessly from them. Majerus "quotes, spits out and recycles modernism," enthuses Mudam director Marie-Claude Beaud. "His painting seems to be cultivated, sensitive and trashy all at the same time...
...classes and began to build a comprehensive home library. They never bought a television and focused on ways to bring their family closer. It seems to have worked. While she is reticent on other topics, Karin Jentoft’s face spreads in a wide grin as she recounts classic family tales. Carla Jentoft calls her daughter and oldest son, Leif P. Jentoft, “best friends.” The siblings played and recorded together as a classical guitar duo until he left for Olin College, an engineering college in Massachusetts, two years ago. Now his sister...
...that the “developed” world, in some ways, should be progressing toward the Third World. As this Black History Month comes to a close, we should all pause to reflect and celebrate our heritage for what it is and not merely for its resemblance to classic Western ideals of greatness. Here’s to our illiterate, tropical-forest-dwelling ancestors, more wise and civilized than we may ever know...