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Without question, Lo's Diary should be published. But it needn't be read. This slip of a thing never emerges from the shadows that tower over it: those of Humbert--that predatory wretch condemned to sing so beautifully of his sin--and his grand, glowering creator. It will have utility only if it leads readers back to the immortal original. Choir, please turn to page 9 of The Annotated Lolita. All together now: "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul...
Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation is not for the faint-hearted audience. No, this yearly festival of short cartoon pieces--which helped make Beavis and Butthead and South Park, among others, famous--is not to be confused with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. Craig "Spike" Decker, co-creator and producer of "Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation" along with the late Mike Gribble, said he was aiming for an audience of "drug-addicts, students, partiers, ravers, punk rockers, hippies, and Siamese twins - two for the price of one." No, this is not an understatement...
...backward. The ruling class did not seem to care, and there was much inequality. Marxism talked about an equal and just distribution of wealth. I was very much in favor of this. Then there was the concept of self-creation. Marxism talked about self-reliance, without depending on a creator or a God. That was very attractive. I had tried to do some things for my people, but I did not have enough time. I still think that if a genuine communist movement had come to Tibet, there would have been much benefit to the people...
Little Oskar the Drummer has finally conquered the world. His creator, German author G?nter Grass, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, with his "Tin Drum," published in 1959, cited as "one of the enduring literary works of the 20th century." "It?s an excellent award, 30 years overdue, but better late than never," says TIME literary critic Paul Gray. "?The Tin Drum? was a pioneering attempt at new fictional forms, a kind of postmodern attempt at super-realism to deal with the bizarre and ugly rise of Nazism. It was an attempt to explore history through a kind...
DIED. HARRY CRANE, 85, stand-up comedian turned screenwriter and co-creator of The Honeymooners; in Los Angeles. In a 50-year career, Crane made jokes for the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and others, including Robert F. Kennedy...