Word: geo
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...underlying messages of desire, domination and anxiety. As always, the newer phalanx of artists tended to look back at whoever had come just before and wince. "There was a traditional view that I grew up with," says Peter Halley, who emerged as a theoretician of what got called Neo-Geo. "Artists had a high calling. They should not let things out of their studio that were...
Some may doubt the sincerity of my arguments, thinking I am simply a hedonist motivated only by the taste of the Big Mac. But I think that the Big Mac is a useful example here, when we think of the oft-heard geo-political quip that no two countries with a McDonalds have ever gone to war. The Golden Arches have replaced the circled, upside-down Y with a line in the middle as the symbol of peace. Once the electricity is running in Baghdad, I think someone should open a Mickey-Dees...
...family--price was a motive. "We wanted to dial back on expenses and also reduce our impact on the environment," says Joan Steelquist, who works for a Seattle nonprofit group. After enrolling in the city's One Car Challenge last summer, the Steelquists downsized to a single 1989 Chevy Geo. Joan uses Flexcars to get to her part-time teaching job once a week. And she can drive her son Reuben, 11, to Boy Scout meetings on Thursday nights--and grocery-shop while she's at it--while her husband is off somewhere else with the Geo. Moreover, she adds...
...hawks' skepticism of the effectiveness of negotiations in stopping nations going nuclear is not without foundation. In today's geo-strategic reality, there's no good reason why any nation state that has the means to attain nuclear weapons would accept a status quo that nukes them out of its hands, while leaving them in the hands of its enemies. Indeed, the strongest impulse to build nuclear weapons, in Iran, as everywhere else, comes from the fact that its key enemies are nuclear-armed and the resulting belief that a nuclear deterrent is therefore essential to Iran's national security...
...Shadow of No Towers takes a similar, (co)mixed-up approach. Any one of Spiegelman's pages will use a multiplicity of styles to simultaneously recount his September 11 memories - he lives in downtown New York on the outskirts of Ground Zero - with considerations of the catastrophe's geo-political and personal aftermath...