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...story of high art, low art, and where they separated. The blessing and the curse of Ross’s writing style is that he loads his answer with as much nuance as the subject itself. He writes, “Music history is too often treated as...a flat image representing a landscape that is in reality borderless and continuous.” Classical European composers outpaced their audiences while Americans began exporting their music for the people; extremist political leaders used threats and violence to chain musicians to their propaganda machines; in-fighting and trend-chasing doomed classical...
...decline of good public affairs journalism. Do you agree? -Andrew Lee, Berkley, Calif. That is a little unsettling to me, how much we have become a celebrity culture country. I was recently back out in the Midwest and because the world is flat in a lot of ways, as Tom Friedman would say, if you go into Sioux Falls, South Dakota and you see the young people, they look just like the young people who are dressed in Beverly Hills or or the West Side of New York. There was a time when celebrity journalism was completely stage...
...debate and roundly hammered. But this sort of fudgery is not unusual among politicians. Edwards took the same admiring-but-not-quite-supporting position on driver's licenses when he was interviewed by ABC's George Stephanopoulos a few days later. In fact, other Democrats - except Christopher Dodd, who flat-out opposed the idea - seemed prohibitively chuckleheaded on this issue: it is hard to imagine why a recent illegal immigrant, unfamiliar with U.S. roads and driving practices, would come forward to get a driver's license just so that he or she could be held liable in the event...
...beauty problem, Puryear agreed. It took me a minute to realize we were talking past each other. He thought the work was so challenging to ordinary notions of what's pleasing to the eye "that a museum is brave to have this thing." I thought it was so flat-out gorgeous that he was in danger of being accused of making something "simply" beautiful...
...trying to relate better to shoppers, Wal-Mart has bumped up training to improve what it calls customer engagement. In its redesigned consumer-electronics section, for instance, the company has discovered that it can sell pricier merchandise like flat-panel televisions and GPS equipment, but customers need a little hand-holding before laying down $1,500 for a set. It's happening just as consumer-electronics giant Circuit City has laid off 9% of its sales force and replaced it with less experienced, less expensive hires. Wal-Mart says same-store sales were up 4.6% in electronics in the past...