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...also strategic. Some Huckabee positions?on abortion, the so-called FairTax, immigration, aligning the Constitution with "God's standards"?would alienate some voters. But his joking reinforces his cultivated image as the conservative who's "not mad at anybody." And his dry irony?the lingua franca of pop culture???allows him to sandwich actual answers on awkward issues with his jokes. If he's lucky, viewers won't notice, or mind, the difference...
...explain this flowering of fecundity. For many women, the biological clock of fertility is running near its end. Menopause will strike at midnight. The ancient Pleistocene call of the moon, of salt in the blood, and genetic encoding buried deep in the chromosomes back there beneath the layers of culture???and counterculture?are making successful businesswomen, professionals and even the mothers of grown children stop and reconsider. Says Pulitzer-prizewinning Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman: "You find women who have believed work is the end-all and beall. But after eight years, they say, just like the housewives, 'Is this...
...bundle of paintings and sketches to show to Editor George Lorimer, Rockwell was greeted by nothing but success. He began his career as a professional artist at a time when large-scale magazine color illustration, thanks to radically improved printing technology, had become one of the keys to mass culture???the television, one might say, of pre-electronic America. It was the illustrators' moment; born into it, Rockwell kept climbing. By 1920 he was the Post's star draftsman. By 1925 he had become a national name, and by the end of the Depression he was an American institution...
...1960s, formalism conferred an almost messianic exclusiveness on taste. If one was "for" one kind of art, one was expected to be "against" others. Besides, a new class of collectors, anxious to commit their money only to sure bets?to what would be Historically Inevitable, to the mainstream of culture???wanted authorities. Not today. The American mainstream has fanned out into a delta, in which the traditional idea of an avant-garde has drowned. Thus, in defiance of the dogma that realist painting was killed by abstract art and photography, realism has come back in as many forms as there...
...state of present-day culture???morals, religion, philosophy, literature and the arts; >Adverse effects of civilization upon personal liberty...