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...Estee Lauder to a younger model. Worse, even, than starring in Bedazzled. "I loved Stephen enormously during the 18 months we were together," was Liz's rejoinder. "I was completely loyal and faithful to Stephen throughout as, indeed, he assured me he was with me." If he is Dada Bing and refuses financial support, Bing could be taken to court in California, where Baby Hurley could get a quarter of his annual earnings. Dada Boom...
...There is an intimate relationship between war and art," says Modris Ecksteins, professor of history at the University of Toronto. "They are absolutely symbiotic." He points out that both the Dada movement and the Surrealists consolidated in the postwar years. But while Ecksteins agrees that Sept. 11 will affect modern fiction, he doubts that it will provide the same powerful literary stimulus as World War I. "As numbing as the recent horrors have been, they don't surpass the days of the early 20th century...
...accused of torture, cannibalism, ethnic cleansing and the murder of some 300,000 of his countrymen, Idi Amin Dada is doing pretty nicely at the pleasure of the Saudi royal family. Although his hosts have imposed a media gag on the 72-year-old former military officer and self-proclaimed national heavyweight boxing champion, who ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979, they've shown no inclination to extradite him. Instead, the Saudis pay Amin a monthly stipend that allows him to live comfortably with a large entourage in a villa in Jidda, where he swims, goes fishing...
...accused of torture, cannibalism, ethnic cleansing and the murder of some 300,000 of his countrymen, Idi Amin Dada is doing pretty nicely at the pleasure of the Saudi royal family. Although his hosts have imposed a media gag on the 72-year-old former military officer and self-proclaimed national heavyweight boxing champion, who ruled Uganda from 1971 to 1979, they've shown no inclination to extradite him. Instead, the Saudis pay Amin a monthly stipend that allows him to live comfortably with a large entourage in a villa in Jidda, where he swims, goes fishing...
...below, the French word opticien, broken up to read O PTI CIEN--which, read aloud, translates as either "o little dog" or "at the sign of the little dog." This is exactly the sort of feeble punning that Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia went in for--a staple of Dada and Surrealism. But its author was the antimodernist par excellence Jean-Leon Gerome, sworn enemy of Manet, Monet and everyone since. Which perhaps only shows that academics can be just as funny as Dadaists...