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...further lesson of this show is a fairly depressing one--or could be if you cling to a reflexive belief in the Latest Thing, abetted by the shaky fantasy that there's such a thing as progress in art. Looking back on 1900 from the year 2000, we see a lot of images and objects whose authors were long ago banished from right-thinking, modernist art history--corpses strewn behind the merciless juggernaut of avant-garde "progress." Some of these are stirring, and quite a few are weirdly interesting. Many can be experienced only as camp, raised by the artists...
Everybody hates an Anglophile. Or at least everybody should. By this I mean the kind of buttered-scone Anglophiles who have supported middlebrow imports like Ballykissangel and Masterpiece Theatre through pledge drive after pledge drive: those self-hating televisual Tories who cling to genteel dramas and dotty, dated comedies as a Union Jacked bulwark against American TV's tendency to be so crude, so commercial...so American...
sports, and that Boston can do little but cling to the coveted second-fiddle position...
...nicely by 8:30 p.m. the other night, when I phoned her. But considering the circumstances in my household--I overheard my husband telling Clementine that "words are like colors and swear words are fluorescent, so save them for when you want to make a big impression"--I cling to another bit of insight from Segal: "By the time children are six, they know what a curse means. She will be able to curb herself." In the meantime, I just may change supermarkets...
...Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker, the killing of unarmed blacks in New York City and the racial profiling practiced by police departments across the nation. These racist acts no longer seem so unusual or exceptional when placed in context with the tenacity by which some southern states still cling to the cherished image of the antebellum South. Until the people of South Carolina admit that whistling Dixie isn't worth dividing the Union, South Carolina will remain a symbol of intolerance and bigotry...