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Person of the Week I VANT MY NTV Russian President Vladimir Putin is in a position to control almost everything his countrymen hear and watch after the independent TV-news outlet NTV, owned by Vladimir Gusinsky, a prominent government critic, fell under control of a state-affiliated conglomerate...
...enhancing shoulders with exaggerated padding; Valentino and Yves Saint Laurent were creating rococo fantasies of beading, silk and ruffles. Amid the froufrous and frills, Kawakubo and Yamamoto rolled out their collections and set Paris on its ear. The clothes were revolutionary, shocking - stark, unstructured and overwhelmingly black. Bewildered critics dubbed Kawakubo's first Paris collection in 1981 - with its frayed seams and misplaced armholes - "Hiroshima chic." This was a moon shot away from the padded-shoulder and pastel look paraded on Dallas. In 1985, Bernadine Morris, then a fashion critic of the New York Times wrote: "Their presentations were...
...context, believability—and more importantly, democratic action—becomes nearly impossible. Deep in a discussion of film, Benjamin will note that the pre-recorded movie—as opposed to the live stage performance “permits the audience to take the position of a critic, without experiencing any personal contact with the actor.” More importantly, it allows us to avoid becoming actors ourselves altogether...
...others as imperious and abrasive. Some top journalists had been trying to reach a compromise with the government. One, popular presenter Svetlana Sorokina, thought the talks were going well. Instead came the raid, which left even some of NTV's enemies wondering whether the President had silenced a critic or created a new opposition force...
...Well, not quite everyone. "There is a case for good, figurative traditional painting," concedes art critic David Lee, editor of the Jackdaw arts newsletter and a former editor of the London-based Art Review. "The problem with Kinkade's work is that he's not actually a very good painter." But unlike some members of the art establishment who dismiss Kinkade as a purely commercial phenomenon, Lee thinks that because of his success, Kinkade deserves to be taken seriously. "I wouldn't have said that what he's doing, simply because he's clamoring for the lowest common denominator...