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...Private Ear gives the audience a peek at the darker, more complex side of relationships, thanks to some custom-crafted performances by the main characters and a short but sharp plot...
Perhaps this explains why the book retains the freshness of the spoken word and is extremely accessible. It reads quickly and describes native practice and custom in simple terms. Australian translator Max Lane provides a convenient glossary of frequently used Indonesian words, but one can understand the book without referring...
...instance, even though Minke is aware of the pull of old custom, he is a wholly modern figure. Upon meeting the Nyai--a woman stigmatized in Indonesian society--he wonders, "Should I offer my hand as to a European woman, or should I treat her as a Native woman and ignore...
Some artists don't seem to belong in the show at all, or only do so by force of custom. It's a toss-up whether you want to see George Segal's once white, now gray, plaster-cast figures in relation to mass culture; today they seem even more attached to solitude and individual grittiness than they did in the '60s, sculptural materializations of the urban mood of Hopper. You could make some kind of case for that excellent California painter Wayne Thiebaud as a Pop artist because he painted hot dogs and angel-food cakes; but artists have...
Poison. Anthrax. Alice in Chains. Skid Row. The band names alone conjure images of mayhem, torture and death. Heavy-metal rock, with its raw lyrics, pummeling beats, banshee vocals and buzz-saw guitars, seems custom-made for leather-clad lowlifes with tattooed biceps and lobotomized brains. Teenagers love it. Always have. But during the early 1980s, when the insipid glam-rock of Duran Duran ruled the charts, heavy metal was the idiot in the basement, shunned by music-industry executives and dismissed by critics as adolescent noise...