Word: fleetingness
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For those of us who read intimations of mortality into little things, (such as the fact that we could not possibly tell the difference between, say Beavis and Butthead and, perhaps even more tragically, that we have absolutely no desire to do so, or the fact that we are now...
For both parties, observed Representative Toby Roth, a Wisconsin Republican, "this was more than an election. It was a revolution." Already wheezing before last Tuesday, the New Deal coalition that had kept Democrats in power for most of the past six decades collapsed and will have to be replaced. Meanwhile...
"Hoop Dreams" is the story of viscious "hopes" of cultural pathology and unrequited "dreams" of evanescent fame. There are moments of extraordinary grace along the way, some intimations of hope and the occasional tremendous jam. But these moments are fleeting. As long as these cycles keep on spinning and these...
In its editorial pages, glossy, brash Wired magazine takes the position that information wants to be free. It runs articles arguing that Gutenberg-era concepts like copyrights and patents can't be adapted to something as fleeting as digital expression. But Wired is a lot less freewheeling about its own...
"Nothing will come of nothing" is an axiom of art history, and the notion that Impressionism was a matter of innocent eyes doing sunlight with broken touches without "academic" preconceptions is strictly for the birds in the sunlit trees. What's wrong with the name Impressionism is that it suggests...