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If ever there was a museum age in Europe and America, it happened in the last half of the 20th century as city after city, nation after nation, set out in pursuit of glory through the accumulation and display of works of art--their own and other people's. One...
"It will have the typical problems of undergraduates doing a mature play," he said. "Also, people will compare it to the movie."
New York Yankees second baseman Chuck Knoblauch and rotund golfer John Daly both had Thursdays they'd like to forget. Knoblauch committed three errors in a Yankee loss; Daly shot a 14 on one U.S. Open hole. Compare their incompetence:
Something strange is happening in television: the rise of VTV, voyeur television. Despite Survivor's gross-outs, its dark premise and its wall-to-wall cheesiness--the faux-Lion King sound track, the "tribal councils" held in what looks like a Holiday Inn Polynesian lounge circa 1963, the somber narration...
Is this narcissism or catharsis? It's hard to tell the difference nowadays, but several VTV veterans explain their decisions to bare all in the language of therapy and personal growth. Survivor contestant Sonja Christopher, 63, was already a survivor--of breast cancer--and signed on as a way of...