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...strangling the person who’s participating for the sake of participating: Eventually you will realize that most of your irritation stems from how much you identify with this person. In the meantime though, use it to your advantage that this one is a chronic self-contradictor. Recycle his bullshit into yours. 3) Avoiding eye contact with the TF after an impossible question’s been asked: Head down. Write. Write as much as you can in that notebook of yours and don’t look up. This screams “genius-flowing-no-interruptions...

Author: By Malin S. Von euler-hogan, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Section: A Survival Guide | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

This seems likely even though Beckmann himself believed that "every form of significant art from Bellini to Henri Rousseau has ultimately been abstract." But Beckmann was always a contradictor, a towering imagination that made no concessions to the fashions or political pressures of his time. And in the Guggenheim's show one sees the very peak of his work: seven of the nine triptychs (three-panel paintings, based on the format of church altarpieces) that he painted immediately before and during his exile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: SCENES OF HELLISH HEAT | 12/16/1996 | See Source »

...play is a welcome contradictor to the too patent idea that all modern stage productions must end happily it that were its only recommendation, it would command the attention of people who desire art at the theatre...

Author: By J. G. N., | Title: THE THEATRE IN BOSTON. | 12/10/1919 | See Source »

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