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CRUISE Wars never solved anything--that's my personal belief--but I don't think that that's necessarily what the film is about. It does pose questions. It's not pointing the finger. Because so much was happening after 9/11, it was hard to get to the truth...
...means making in a way that a lot of artists no longer do. Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst don't lay a finger on much of what bears their names. They hand their ideas over to studio assistants or skilled fabricators. Puryear is his own skilled fabricator; he has brought carpentry, joinery and boatbuilding techniques into his art. He knows that's a retro virtue. "To get your hands dirty building something?" he asks. "You can buy that nowadays. So a lot of artists buy a very high level of craft from somebody else. They don't put themselves...
...Invitation for an Intervention The Oct. 8 cover stated, "The World is Watching" the Burmese regime's crackdown on demonstrators. Was that phrasing a warning or a comfort? How often has the world watched conflicts begin, unfold and end without lifting a finger? It seems there are repeatedly much reporting, much hand-wringing and many U.N. speeches, fact-finding visits and economic sanctions but very little effective humanitarian action - preventive or corrective. People are still dying in Darfur despite much of the above activity, including world surveillance. There are so many other arenas in which effective action is needed...
...Invitation for an Intervention The Oct. 8 cover stated, "The World is Watching" the Burmese regime's crackdown on demonstrators. Was that phrasing a warning or a comfort? How often has the world watched conflicts begin, unfold and end without lifting a finger? It seems there are repeatedly much reporting, much hand-wringing and many U.N. speeches, fact-finding visits and economic sanctions but very little effective humanitarian action - preventive or corrective. People are still dying in Darfur despite much of the above activity, including world surveillance. There are so many other arenas in which effective action is needed...
Just don't look here for evidence of the finger-snapping hipsters that the loaded term Beat conjures. Kerouac never identified with the counter-culture that adopted his masterpiece as a generational guidebook to social dissent. For him, the Beatific was a solitary state of mind, and he satisfied his own spirituality not with hipness, but with a scholarly ardor. Kerouac was complicated: shy but frenetically communicative, he admired Buddha and St. Francis of Assisi yet supported the Vietnam War. "So often Kerouac is seen as a wild man and genius who didn't know what he was doing," says...