Word: essays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ESSAY Philip Dunne on the value of a politician's tears...
...body of material, a rather different Seurat emerges from the one we are used to. The "scientific" painter with his abstruse color theories recedes somewhat, and an inspired lyricist comes to the fore -- a 19th century Giorgione. As the art historian Robert L. Herbert puts it in his catalog essay, Seurat "wanted to be perceived as a technician of art, and so he borrowed from science some of the signs of its authority, including regularity and clarity of pattern...
...ESSAY Lance Morrow on Anne Sexton's posthumous mess...
...creationism, the invasion of the public forum with religious fundamentalism, the overt attempts to muzzle the press, the conglomeration of multi-nationals owning the television networks, the multi-nationals owning the government, the extreme military budget, you know, 300 dollars a year. In 1959, I wrote a little essay denouncing the military spending and the budget then was 52 million a year instead of 300 billion. And I thought that was already extravagent. So there is a huge Big Brother thing going on now that if it went on before was not noticeably big brother. And the people that noticed...
...ESSAY Pico Iyer raises a toast...