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...fire storm of ridicule and puzzlement set off by the Armory Show, which 300,000 people saw during the course of its run, Duchamp in particular benefited, on the basis of a single picture: Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912. It became the star freak of the show--its bearded lady, its dog-faced boy. People compared it to a Navajo rug, a cyclone in a shingle factory, an earthquake in the subway. A dull brown painting in a Cubist idiom, its overlapping planes were partly derived from the motion-analysis photos of Etienne-Jules Marey. Its very title...
...film made after at least three other directors had tried and failed. "But she's not a cliche diva stamping her foot. She's very intelligent. You've got to make sure you have the right answer when she has a question. She's a control freak, but so am I. When there was a problem, I would just say, 'Let her and me solve it.' " Madonna responds in kind: "Alan was very supportive during the shooting. He let me sort of follow my own instincts in a lot of cases. We had both been prepared to expect the worst...
...Venus. The true story of a 19th century Hottentot woman shipped from Africa to England and displayed as a freak was turned into a chilly but gripping play by Suzan-Lori Parks. The social commentary was kept at arm's length by her neo-Brechtian stylization; director Richard Foreman's deep-space staging (at New York City's Public Theater) made it haunting...
...years now. Meanwhile, even though the media stopped paying attention back when the cast was taking its PSATs, the kids on Fox's Beverly Hills 90210 have been slogging--in real time--through high school and four years of college. ABC's Family Matters and its alien-voiced, freak man-child Steve Urkel have been with us for eight seasons--and yet the show remains the highest rated in its time period. The same network's Coach (on hiatus until midwinter) is in its ninth season with a star, Craig T. Nelson, who isn't even as charismatic and with...
...high school, I was never anxious about getting injured when I went to a soccer game. Barring any freak sideline collision, my metal folding chair was relatively safe from harm. I took my high school sports seriously; I posted the schedules for all the teams on my bulletin board and lugged around my padded chair, which turned any field into the perfect place for a spectator. I admired my schoolmates' resolve and their long hours of practice, how they fit in time to go to the gym or go running between chem lab write-ups and political-science review sheets...